/tags/incarceration Incarceration en-US Copyright Tue, 07 May 2024 19:32:49 GMT /news/2024-05-07/durham-sheriff-emancipate-nc-lawsuit-jail-policy-records A lawsuit against the Durham Sheriff over redacted public records will continue to be fought in the courts by Emancipate NC. Tue, 07 May 2024 19:32:49 GMT /news/2024-05-07/durham-sheriff-emancipate-nc-lawsuit-jail-policy-records Aaron Sánchez-Guerra /health/2024-02-19/prison-system-works-to-combat-health-care-coverage-gap-by-enrolling-people-in-medicaid-before-release An estimated 80% of people reentering the community from prison are newly eligible for Medicaid. Expanded coverage could boost reentry success as people have more consistent medical care. Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:22:01 GMT /health/2024-02-19/prison-system-works-to-combat-health-care-coverage-gap-by-enrolling-people-in-medicaid-before-release Rachel Crumpler/NC Health ¹ÏÉñapp /show/embodied-radio-show/2023-12-22/incarcerated-prison-family-parent-child-jail Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones. Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:01:00 GMT /show/embodied-radio-show/2023-12-22/incarcerated-prison-family-parent-child-jail Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-12-22/incarcerated-father-prison-family-parent-child-jail Anita reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her beloved college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley reflects on her father's 20-year prison sentence and the untold stories of families navigating incarceration from the outside. Journalist Sylvia A. Harvey also shares how losing her mother to asthma and her father to a life sentence in prison before she was 6 years old led her to investigate the carceral system as a whole. Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:30:00 GMT /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-12-22/incarcerated-father-prison-family-parent-child-jail Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /health/2023-11-24/suicide-self-harm-mental-health-incarceration-data-north-carolina Time spent in prison and jail often worsens mental health. Researchers and advocates say more data and transparency is needed to better understand and reduce in-custody suicides. Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:23:06 GMT /health/2023-11-24/suicide-self-harm-mental-health-incarceration-data-north-carolina Rachel Crumpler/NC Health ¹ÏÉñapp /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-02-10/separated-growing-up-with-an-incarcerated-father-prison-family-parent-child-jail Anita reconnects with the woman who changed her thinking on incarceration: her beloved college thesis adviser Ashley Lucas. Ashley reflects on her father's 20-year prison sentence and the untold stories of families navigating incarceration from the outside. Journalist Sylvia A. Harvey also shares how losing her mother to asthma and her father to a life sentence in prison before she was 6 years old led her to investigate the carceral system as a whole. Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:34:00 GMT /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-02-10/separated-growing-up-with-an-incarcerated-father-prison-family-parent-child-jail Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /news/2022-01-03/nc-prisoner-dies-from-coronavirus-weekend-covid-19-cases-reach-daily-record The state Department of Health and Human Services reported 19,620 positive cases on Saturday — the third record day-over-day increase for the pandemic last week. Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:25:28 GMT /news/2022-01-03/nc-prisoner-dies-from-coronavirus-weekend-covid-19-cases-reach-daily-record Associated Press, Leoneda Inge /race-demographics/2021-10-22/lost-or-forgotten-no-more-incarcerated-black-laborers-that-built-wnc-railroad-memorialized Outside of Old Fort, the Western North Carolina railroad bends around Andrews Geyser. Thousands of incarcerated laborers built this railroad – and nearly all of them were African American. Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:10:40 GMT /race-demographics/2021-10-22/lost-or-forgotten-no-more-incarcerated-black-laborers-that-built-wnc-railroad-memorialized Matt Bush /news/2021-08-25/nc-senate-backs-protections-for-incarcerated-pregnant-women The use of physical restraints like handcuffs and shackles on pregnant women and new mothers in North Carolina prisons and jails would be largely barred in a measure nearing final legislative approval. Wed, 25 Aug 2021 21:45:24 GMT /news/2021-08-25/nc-senate-backs-protections-for-incarcerated-pregnant-women Associated Press /season-two-trailer/2021-05-26/incarcerated-love-in-lockdown Anita loves a good romantic story — especially when lovers prevail against all odds. There are a million reasons to give up on happily ever after when one or more people in a relationship are incarcerated. But for those who stay together despite prison walls, a special kind of connection is created, as we learn in the season two finale. | Support this show with a donation at wunc.org/give. Wed, 26 May 2021 08:00:24 GMT /season-two-trailer/2021-05-26/incarcerated-love-in-lockdown Anita Rao, Grant Holub-Moorman, Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Jenni Lawson