wrongful conviction

An Alamance couple has donated a portion of their small farm to house exonerees. It's a collaboration with the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence with the goal of helping those who have spent years in prison and were wrongfully convicted transition back into society.

Newly released reports provide more details on the September death of Kalvin Michael Smith, who spent almost 20 years in prison. He was at the center of a racially divisive case that was one of the region’s most prominent allegations of wrongful conviction.

Lawyers for a man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years say he's reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina. The settlement was announced Tuesday by attorneys for Ronnie Long and the city of Concord. I

In 2003, journalist Phoebe Zerwick wrote an eight-part investigative series in The Winston-Salem Journal about the case of Darryl Hunt, a Black man who…

With thousands of young demonstrators marching in Winston-Salem to protest the police killing of George Floyd, an older generation in Winston-Salem is…