Following months of negotiation and pressure from the community, the N.C. Department of Public Safety today announced that it plans to transfer Kanautica Zayre-Brown to a women’s facility. Zayre-Brown, a woman who is transgender, has been incarcerated in men's facilities for more than a year.

A federal court has ordered North Carolina to provide treatment for Hepatitis C, the most deadly infectious disease in the U.S., to three individual plaintiffs and to make treatment possible for all people who are incarcerated in state prisons and have been diagnosed with Hepatitis C.