More than one in five of the state’s prison beds, 21%, still do not have air conditioning, according to the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections, including the Johnston Correctional Facility ...
April Barber Scales recalls her 18 summers spent incarcerated without air conditioning at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh — the state’s largest women’s prison — as ...
During this week’s heat wave, inmates in prisons across North Carolina face sweltering heat with no air conditioning. More than one in five of the state’s prison beds, 21%, still do not have air ...