The man making the memos that make the news is Joe Prater, deputy commissioner for the Division of Correction since March 2013. Prater oversees the $1 billion annual prison budget, personnel ...

STOCKTON - A judge sent Frankie Joe Prater, a member of Stockton's Jus Brothers Motorcycle Club, back to state prison Monday for stabbing an unarmed man to death in a 2004 bar fight.

Prater wrote the memo shortly after the Oct. 28, 2014, meeting in Charlotte whose attendees included four prison officials, McCrory and Graeme Keith Sr., a friend and political contributor of the ...

During another conversation, “Sec. Perry told JP (Joe Prater) in the basement parking lot that the governor had called him again, concerned about our allowing the Keith contract to expire, as ...