Court Approves Landmark Settlement Requiring Prison System to Expand Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment

NCPLS and the ACLU of North Carolina have filed a class action lawsuit alleging that the state's use of solitary confinement inflicts "cruel or unusual punishment" prohibited by the North Carolina Constitution.

Court orders NC to expand treatment of Hepatitis C in state prisons

 Prisoners fight to access a Hepatitis C cure in North Carolina

State law bars people who are on probation for felonies from voting.  Alamance County was one of a handful of counties where prosecutors brought charges.

NCPLS Attorney Jonathan Broun tackles injustice through his extensive work on capital cases

After more than three decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit, James Blackmon has been acquitted of all charges.

North Carolina should abolish the sentence of juvenile life without parole and replace it with a more humane and cost-effective sentence that allows for a review after a reasonable period of time, according to a report released Feb. 11 by the JustScience Lab at Duke University.

In 1996, police interviewed a 14-year-old boy with an IQ estimated at 66, questioning him about a cab driver beaten to death in the Sanford streets.

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New evidence suggests a different set of Sanford youths attacked the victim, records said, offering testimony that might have cleared Reid at the time.