The family alleges that the Mecklenburg Sheriff’s Office didn’t protect the 71-year-old, who overdosed on an anti-psychotic ...

A 51-year-old woman who died after being found unresponsive at the Mecklenburg County jail last month died from issues caused ...

This August 1984 photograph captures a haunting drawing in Mecklenburg prison’s A-pod for death row inmates. The prison, located in Boydton, Virginia, made national headlines when six death row ...

Former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools teacher Ernest Nichols was serving up to 22 years in prison at Greene Correctional Institution in Maury, North Carolina ...

Mecklenburg County faces the loss of one of its biggest employers under Gov. Bob McDonnell's plan to close a prison that once housed the most incorrigible inmates in Virginia. County officials learned ...

A man will spend at least eight years in prison after a jury convicted him of driving under the influence and killing a teenager, according to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney's office.