by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
When the General Assembly convened for the long session on January 11, 2017, the atmosphere among the legislators was congenial and light. A far cry from the atmosphere during the special sessions that rounded out 2016. While most of the day was swearing ins, lofty...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
Dylan Roof was sentenced to death on January 11 for the murder of 9 parishioners during Bible study at Mother Emanuel Baptist Church. Roof was sentenced for crimes that caused untold suffering to the nine families of those at Mother Emanuel, the surviving victims and...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Gun Violence
The police body cam law was put to the test in Charlotte last week and earned an “A” for public access. Mecklenburg County Superior Court Judge Jesse Caldwell ordered all Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department body and dash cam video to be released in...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 25, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
An article entitled These Lives Matter, Those Ones Don’t: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the US and in the Top Death Penalty States, recently published in the Albany Law Review, tackles data on how the race of a victim impacts...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 3, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
December 16, 2016, North Carolina Council on Community Programs kicked off its 2016 conference with a very informative pre-conference session on the community & LME/MCO role in reducing the number of people with mental illness in jail. Information on the Stepping...
