An inmate with the Craven County Detention Center reportedly escaped from his assigned cell on Sunday afternoon. A search showed that the inmate, John Matthew Nigh, was assisted by his two cell mates ...

An inmate escaped custody over the weekend in North Carolina, apparently fleeing a county jail through the building's ...

Officials in North Carolina are searching for escaped inmate John Matthew Nigh who has been on the run for a few days.

The manhunt continues for an inmate who reportedly escaped through a ventilation system at a North Carolina jail last week.

An inmate escaped from a North Carolina jail through a ventilation system while his cellmates stuffed a mattress to make it seem like he was asleep, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Deputies from Nash County are assisting in the search near the North Carolina coast for a possible prison escapee, officials ...

An inmate escaped from a North Carolina jail through a ventilation system while his cellmates stuffed a ... Nigh, who records show served time in prison for burglary in Craven County, was arrested in ...

About 6% of North Carolina’s 31,400 prison inmates are in solitary confinement, said DAC spokesperson Keith Acree. Yet about half of all suicides take place in those cells, Peiper said.