Ernest Nichols, 60, a former teacher at Ranson Middle School in Charlotte, was arrested in 2009 and originally faced a long ...

A former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher in prison on a statutory rape charge was killed by a fellow inmate convicted ...

In a case that some would call prison justice, a former teacher in North Carolina was killed by another inmate, while serving time in prison for repeatedly raping a teenage girl.

A former middle school teacher serving time for statutory rape was found dead in his prison bunk on October 5, and authorities have since charged a fellow inmate, a convicted murderer, with his death.

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 ...

No one knows how Otto Wood made his final escape from a North Carolina prison 95 years ago, historians said. Screengrab from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website Mystery ...