by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On June 19, Director of Policy and Programming Kerwin Pittman celebrated Juneteenth by bailing out two fathers at the Wake County Jail, in collaboration with Emancipate NC’s Freedom Fighter Bond Fund and Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services, Inc. (RREPS)....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Policing
It has been two years since the racial justice protests that roiled our state capital in Summer 2020, following the police murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Since then, Emancipate NC has strived to convert that energy into transformation of our dominant...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Commentary by Elizabeth Simpson The rulers make the rules. When they do, they impose their ideas of “right” and “wrong” on everybody else. That’s why alcohol is legal in North Carolina and weed is not. During Prohibition, as white Southerners brewed illegal moonshine...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Please join Emancipate NC’s Cierra Cobb and Kerwin Pittman, along with many allied people and organizations, at a coalition event on June 26 at 2 pm at Chavis Community Center to demonstrate solidarity with people in...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On June 8, 2022, on the heels of Emancipate NC petitioning for release of body camera footage of the police shooting of Reuel Rodriguez-Nunez, Raleigh Police finally admitted they need a De-Escalation Policy. The police adopted Kerwin Pittman’s language,...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Legislative Updates
The following summary of Senate Bill 660 comes from our Justice League Fellow and summer intern, Kyla Holton. The proliferation of publish-for-pay entities publishing booking photographs is a problem that prevents people from achieving a fresh start with housing and...
