by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
By: Attorney Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director of Emancipate NC As recent months have unfolded, many Americans, and people of color especially have been forced to wrestle with feelings of powerlessness. We are bombarded with news of threats to the dreams of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
A coalition of legal and gender justice advocates is taking action to demand the transfer of Ashlee Inscoe, an intersex, transgender woman currently housed in a men’s prison in North Carolina, citing Eighth Amendment requirements. Emancipate NC Associate Director...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Please join Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove and Emancipate NC Organizer Kerwin Pittman for a nonpartisan panel discussion on local justice reform, prosecution, and racial equity in Wake County. Emancipate NC and Save Our Sons representative, Kimberly...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Image depicts Kerwin Pittman (left), standing behind Governor Roy Cooper as he signs SB 300 into law on September 2, 2021. On September 2, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 300: Criminal Justice Reform into law, aligning with some of the recommendations of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Essay by J Hallen; Photo Credit The Daily Tar Heel Whenever the brutality of state-sanctioned repression reaches a certain extreme, the people of this nation rise up against the never-ending wave of police brutality, police murders, and targeted mass incarceration....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 30, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Mass Incarceration
Photo depicts Phillip Vance Smith II. Currently, in North Carolina, there are 1627 incarcerated people who are sentenced to life in prison (News and Observer). Phillip Vance Smith II and Tim Johnson are two of them. In an environment where two out of three meals a day...
