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The Vance County Sheriff is calling it a crisis and pleading for help after three assaults in the jail in just one month.
Sarah Krueger, WRAL Durham reporter
A Cumberland County detention officer was arrested this week after she was fired from her job for providing a phone to an inmate.
A detention officer was arrested in Cumberland County after she gave a cell phone to an inmate, according to law enforcement.
A former Wake County detention officer is accused of facilitating an assault on two inmates in February.
Three Robeson County Sheriff's officers that worked in the detention center were arrested on Wednesday and accused of helping bond out a man using a fake name.
The state Department of Public Safety says the state's prisons need more corrections officers and vacancies are not where they should be.
Chris Lovingood, WRAL anchor/reporter
The search for answers has begun after Eric Griffith was found unresponsive in his cell Tuesday.
Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter
The man accused of terrorizing others at three Raleigh hotels earlier this year has now been charged with assault on a detention officer.
A Wake County detention officer was arrested on charges of supplying contraband to inmates.
After keeping a lid on coronavirus for months, the Wake County Detention Center is seeing its worst spread since the beginning of the pandemic.
Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter
Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker says he's determined not to allow an inmate to die in jail while being restrained by detention officers, as happened in Forsyth County last December. Baker is revamping his detention unit after dismantling it over concerns of how inmates were handled.
Protesters are believed to have thrown red paint at the Mecklenburg County Detention Center on Sunday after an inmate was found unresponsive in his jail cell earlier in the day, NBC Charlotte reports.
NBC Charlotte
Five former detention officers and a nurse at a North Carolina jail have been charged with involuntary manslaughter after a man died last December, a district attorney said Wednesday.
The Durham County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday that one of its officers passed away.
City leaders from Raleigh and Durham joined several immigrant families on Monday to speak out against recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, actions in North Carolina.
Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker has fired fired two detention officers, who were later arrested and charged with assaulting an inmate in the county jail, authorities said Thursday.
A Nash County detention officer was arrested Tuesday after allegedly giving cellphones to several inmates.
Janine Bowen, WRAL.com editor