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NC prisons short-staffed
By dailytarheel.com- Lindsey Brunson
Published: 04/02/2015

"All inmates line up outside,” Sergeant Earvin Harrelson calls across the intercom from inside the control office.

It’s 9:20 a.m. and time for the 220 inmates at Orange Correctional Center, a minimum custody prison in Hillsborough, to be accounted for. Dressed in grey sweats and green jackets in the cool morning, the inmates in the yard set down what they’re doing and gather in a large circle around the red corral fence. They lounge against the posts as they wait to be counted. This is just another day.

A correctional officer pops her head into the control room.

“I’ve got 90 in the yard,” she says. The officer coming in behind her says he does, too. Harrelson shakes his head. That’s one too many. They’ve got to count again.

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