by Mandie Sellars | Oct 13, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
(Read full story from the Public News Service) Police officers in Wilson County are taking steps to reduce the region’s high incarceration rate by issuing citations to people for nonviolent misdemeanors, rather than arresting them. Criminal-justice reform...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 11, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Emancipate NC, a project of Carolina Justice Policy Center (CJPC), is a statewide criminal justice policy center. In reviewing the cell phone footage of the incident involving 18 year old girl, T’Ziah Kelly, we cannot find any justifiable reason for the level of...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 18, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Gun Violence
By Wyatt Russell, CJPC Fellow On Friday September 13, CJPC fellow Wyatt Russell attended the Crime Cabinet in the Durham County Commission Chambers, and submitted the following reflection. This quarter’s Durham Crime Cabinet showed both progress and a lack thereof....
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 13, 2019 | Emancipate NC News
ACLU of NC, in partnership with the Carolina Justice Policy Center, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Raleigh PACT, and El Pueblo, recently researched and released a candidate scorecard of the city of Raleigh officials about their positions on police...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 13, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Attorney Dawn Blagrove, CJPC Executive Director Most Mothers never stop wanting to protect their children from harm. For mothers of Black sons, two of the most dreaded harms are getting sent to prison and dying. With today’s plague of mass incarceration...
