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Nearly 40% of North Carolina correctional officer positions are vacant. And thousands of beds at prisons across the state are closed because there aren’t enough certified officers to cover them.

R. Kelly was transferred to the medium-security federal correctional institution in Butner, N.C., last week, according to federal officials.

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.

Last fall, the North Carolina General Assembly approved $30 million to address a lack of air conditioning in the state’s prison system. But with summer approaching, none of the actual construction has begun.

Inmates at the Alexander Correctional Facility, located about an hour west of Winston-Salem, allege they are being mistreated. Some have been on a hunger strike to protest these conditions.

New research released from the N.C. Department of Public Safety finds that incarcerated individuals with mental health disorders have better outcomes when placed in a Therapeutic Diversion Unit than when they are placed in restrictive housing like solitary confinement.

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.

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.

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