by Mandie Sellars | Mar 14, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Every day at CJPC, we teach communities across North Carolina about the power their local elected officials have to make our criminal justice system more equitable, fair, and humane. Judges are one of the officials we talk a lot about, because their courtrooms are...
by Mandie Sellars | Feb 19, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
On February 16, the Alamance County NAACP kicked off their latest movement, “Stand Against Countywide Acts of Racial & Immigrant Criminalization” in an event that featured CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove. At this gathering, Blagrove talked to the...
by Mandie Sellars | Feb 19, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
In January, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove traveled to Smithfield, North Carolina, to provide a Vote4Justice training for members of the African-American Caucus of the Johnston County Democratic Party and other community advocates. On February 17, several of...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 22, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On Saturday, January 19, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove joined Judge Josephine Kerr Davis, Durham District Attorney Satana Deberry, leaders of African-American Caucus of the NC Democratic Party, and others to discuss criminal justice reform in North Carolina....
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 10, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Allison Bunker, CJPC Intern When we examine the current state of justice in America there seems to be no rationality for why we incarcerate 2.3 million people. Yet if we peel away the layers of the prison system a possible answer comes to light: corporate...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 10, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By CJPC Intern Lily Walter Real court is not like Law & Order. Although this sounds like a fairly obvious truth, I didn’t grasp how truly different the real justice system was until I visited the Forsyth County courts. And perhaps the biggest misconception TV...
