by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Raising the Juvenile Age
Last week, Emancipate NC joined with the Wilson County NAACP to host a forum on juvenile justice at the Wilson Community College. The guest speakers were Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove, Attorney LaToya Powell, the Deputy General Counsel of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
You’ve followed coverage here of the Raleigh police murder of Daniel Turcios in January 2022. Initial media reports described an “intoxicated” man “wielding a knife” and “threatening people” – all part of the police-generated narrative to justify taking this man’s...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Valarie Smith Ragland just wants to see the footage of her son dying. Makari J Smith, of Oxford, NC, was fatally shot on February 9, 2022, at the age of 23, by the Granville County Sheriff’s Office while in the midst of a probable psychotic...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Last month, Emancipate NC attorneys Ian Mance and Elizabeth Simpson, joined with co-counsel Emily Gladden and Abe Rubert-Schewel from the law firm of Tin Fulton Walker & Owen and Michael Littlejohn from Littlejohn Law, to sue the Raleigh Police Department on...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Phillip Smith, a friend of Emancipate NC, is the Editor of Nash News, a publication created and produced entirely by Nash Correctional Residents at the Correction Enterprises Print Plant. The last issue featured a story about Emancipate NC, including profiles of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 17, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty, Mass Incarceration
One of Emancipate NC’s three primary strategies is our work to shift the public narrative on mass incarceration. Our mission statement reads: “Through community education, narrative shift, and litigation, Emancipate NC supports North Carolina’s people as they free...
