by operations | Feb 13, 2025 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Last November, Kerwin Pittman drove hours to Peachland, North Carolina — a town in Anson County — to buy a bus. On the drive back to Raleigh, he said, he was just hoping it wouldn’t break down. After all, he had a big dream for it. Three months later, he has...
by operations | Nov 20, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
After a coalition press conference demanding prison releases due to overcrowding caused by Hurricane Helene, Emancipate NC joined Disability Rights NC, the ACLU of North Carolina, and six other human rights advocacy groups in a call for action. Emancipate NC was...
by operations | Sep 4, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Events
This year marks our seventh annual Poetic Justice event on Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 6 pm. Hausson Byrd returns to curate poets sharing stories of human resilience and beauty in the face of incarceration and state-imposed trauma. That evening, we will hear...
by operations | Jul 24, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Article by Phillip Vance Smith, II, published in Bolts Magazine After I served 14 months in prison for petty crimes, the state of North Carolina released me into homelessness on Dec. 30, 2000 with only the prison clothes on my back, a paper identification card, and...
by operations | May 1, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
By April Barber Scales (Justice League Fellow) and Anthony Willis We have been free — out of prison — for two years. If you had asked us five years ago if we would be where we are now, we would have said no. Both of us were convicted as juveniles (15 and 16 years old)...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Come out to the Verses from Within: Artistic Resilience on Death Row from Creativity to Commutation event on April 21, 2024, from 3:30-5:30 PM for a benefit for the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. There will be...
