/tags/prisoners Prisoners en-US Copyright Fri, 03 May 2024 12:01:25 GMT /news/2024-05-03/dillsboro-historical-marker-convict-laborers-civil-war-slavery The North Carolina roadside history marker commemorates the Cowee Tunnel disaster near Dillsboro, an 1882 construction accident that killed 19 Black inmate workers. Fri, 03 May 2024 12:01:25 GMT /news/2024-05-03/dillsboro-historical-marker-convict-laborers-civil-war-slavery Jay Price /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 /show/the-state-of-things/2018-03-27/how-will-north-carolina-escape-its-prison-crisis Staffing and safety issues inside North Carolina prisons are at a perilous point. In 2017, five corrections officers were killed in violent incidents at… Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:05:50 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2018-03-27/how-will-north-carolina-escape-its-prison-crisis Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /law/2018-03-27/how-will-north-carolina-escape-its-prison-crisis Staffing and safety issues inside North Carolina prisons are at a perilous point. In 2017, five corrections officers were killed in violent incidents at… Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:05:50 GMT /law/2018-03-27/how-will-north-carolina-escape-its-prison-crisis Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2018-01-26/north-carolina-audits-the-list-of-banned-books-in-prisons This week the North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union wrote a letter to state officials asking them to remove “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration… Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:16:19 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2018-01-26/north-carolina-audits-the-list-of-banned-books-in-prisons Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /law/2018-01-26/north-carolina-audits-the-list-of-banned-books-in-prisons This week the North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union wrote a letter to state officials asking them to remove “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration… Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:16:19 GMT /law/2018-01-26/north-carolina-audits-the-list-of-banned-books-in-prisons Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2016-11-30/legacy-of-prison-uprising-influences-modern-incarceration Forty-five years ago, New York state police raided Attica Prison, a maximum-security institution in a small town in upstate New York. The standoff and… Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:24:42 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2016-11-30/legacy-of-prison-uprising-influences-modern-incarceration Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /law/2016-11-30/legacy-of-prison-uprising-influences-modern-incarceration Forty-five years ago, New York state police raided Attica Prison, a maximum-security institution in a small town in upstate New York. The standoff and… Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:24:42 GMT /law/2016-11-30/legacy-of-prison-uprising-influences-modern-incarceration Anita Rao, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2016-06-17/criminal-do-we-deserve-to-kill Convicted criminals can sit on death row for many years after the crime scene is cleaned up and packed away.In this week's Criminal Podcast, host Phoebe… Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:31:25 GMT /arts-culture/2016-06-17/criminal-do-we-deserve-to-kill Phoebe Judge, Eric Hodge, Rebecca Martinez /show/the-state-of-things/2015-10-30/the-treatment-of-mentally-ill-prisoners Note: This is a rebroadcast from earlier this year.A recent report by Human Rights Watch documents widespread abuse of mentally ill inmates in prisons… Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:04:08 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2015-10-30/the-treatment-of-mentally-ill-prisoners Hady Mawajdeh, Frank Stasio