CORRECTION NEEDED.

The N.C. prison system's 40% staff vacancy rate was a key focus at the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Adult Corrections Todd Ishee.

Ishee was approved to lead a cabinet position created when last year's state budget called for prisons, probation and parole to become a separate agency from the Department of Public Safety. He has been the state's commissioner of prisons since 2019 and previously spent decades working in the corrections system in...