Civil Rights Group Files Lawsuit to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in NC Prisons

RALEIGH (WTVD) — With concerns growing of a coronavirus outbreak in the state’s prison system, a coalition of civil rights groups and inmate family members filed an emergency lawsuit with the North Carolina Supreme Court Wednesday to force Governor Roy Cooper to take action to reduce the state prison population to help stop the spread.

“We are very concerned,” said Veena Gulati, of Wendell, whose fiancé is currently imprisoned at Wake Correctional in Raleigh. “We don’t want him to get sick there and then won’t have nowhere to go, God forbid.”

Statewide, three correctional facilities in North…