Authorities were searching Wednesday for an escaped inmate who walked away from a federal prison satellite camp in Butner, federal prison spokeswoman Denise Simmons said. Authorities were ...

A sampling of the News & Observer’s journalism from 2020. An inmate who fled a federal prison camp in Butner and remains on the loose told The News & Observer on Thursday that he escaped because ...

was missing at 12:45 a.m. He was an inmate in the complex’s prison camp, which is not fenced in, said Butner’s town police chief, James Champion. The prison said Cephas is a “non-dangerous ...

Butner Warden Thomas Scarantino said in the ... While the complex dealt with outbreaks at the medium-security prison and camp, it began moving inmates who had the virus into what had been a ...

Butner administrators were slow to tell ... you have to remove people from the camp, from the prisons," he said. "The sick, the infirm, the old, those people who are the most vulnerable, those ...

Sep. 23—BUTNER — An attempt to escape from the Butner federal prison is costing convicted bank robber Charles Asher an extra 30 months of freedom. U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle ...

Several consultants to people heading to prison have written complimentary things about the atmosphere at Butner’s various prison facilities. In 2012, Alan Ellis, a criminal defense attorney who ...

A museum dedicated to Camp Butner, the World War II Army training camp that preceded the town that bears its name, will open one day a month starting Saturday. The museum, stocked with shells ...

A quarter of federal inmate deaths occur at North Carolina's Butner prison complex. Some federal inmates only arrived at its medical facility after waiting months or even years for care elsewhere.

The former guard was sentenced in federal court Friday. Google Earth A former lieutenant at a federal prison in Butner was sentenced to two years of probation Friday for violating an inmate’s ...

Jan. 25—BUTNER — Federal authorities have secured the indictment of another Butner prison inmate they allege had illegal drugs behind bars. The prisoner, Juan Martir, faces counts of ...

Kelly was moved last week from the correctional center in Chicago to the Federal Correctional Institute in Butner, N.C. The 56-year-old is serving out a thirty-year-long prison sentence for child ...