Benevolence Farm in Graham helps women after jail or prison to transition back into society. The nonprofit is building a tiny ...

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 ...

Benevolence Farm breaks ground in Graham as North Carolina's first transitional housing for formerly incarcerated women.

More than one in four people leaving North Carolina prisons in 2024 were released to homelessness, according to a reentry housing assessment presented at the July meeting of the Joint Reentry Council.

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 ...