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A federal judge on Friday sentenced a North Carolina man to 25 years in prison for teaching someone how to make bombs meant to kill federal law enforcement officers. A jury found Christopher Arthur, 40, guilty in 2023 for the bomb-related charges, as well as for illegally possessing weapons, including improvised explosives found on his farm in Mount Olive, North Carolina.
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The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.
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A team of three people in the DHHS Division of Health Service Regulation is responsible for reviewing all 109 county jails.
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Charges were also filed against Michelle Heughins, who worked as a nurse for Wellpath, the jail鈥檚 former health care provider. She is the sole defendant to be indicted by the grand jury in this case.
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Durham County Commissioners say a new youth detention center will give better care for juveniles in Durham County. But many in the community are skeptical.
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In the investigative series 鈥淩aising Jails,鈥 Carolina Public Press reporter Jordan Wilkie examines the process for building and expanding jails in North Carolina.
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In North Carolina, jailers are required to observe each inmate 鈥渁t least twice an hour on an irregular basis, with no more than 40 minutes between rounds,鈥 according to state regulations. That standard was repeatedly violated in the hours leading up to the two deaths, according to investigators with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
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When a judge locks someone up, it鈥檚 not just that one person serving a sentence. Families and loved ones suffer the punishment too. Despite the economic鈥