By Rachel Crumpler Key Takeaways: More than one-quarter of North Carolina’s state prison population — just over 9,000 people — has a mental health diagnosis requiring treatment. The percentage of the prison population on the mental health caseload has more than doubled since 2014, from 12 percent to 26.9 percent now, according to N.C. Department […] The post As mental health needs grow in NC prisons, state leaders look to improve care after release appeared first on North Carolina Health News.