Understaffed and Undervalued: Inside North Carolina's Corrections Crisis

This week, SEANC First Vice President Emily Jones joined the team during Board of Governors week to discuss the growing staffing crisis across prisons and probation & parole, the use of lapse salaries, and the toll underfunding takes on morale and public safety.

Emily shares frontline experiences — from inmate confrontations to challenges in community supervision — while the team also touches on mental health, homelessness, law enforcement benefits, and broader public concerns raised by recent policy debates.