Ernest Nichols, 60, a former teacher at Ranson Middle School in Charlotte, was arrested in 2009 and originally faced a long list of charges including statutory rape of a person 13, 14, or 15; six ...

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.

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.

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 ...