by Mandie Sellars | May 15, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
by Elizabeth Simpson, CJPC Associate Director Last week, a community activist called me. She told me that her friend Amanda Marriner, a formerly incarcerated woman, wanted to get married to another woman who is still in prison. However, the prison was blocking the...
by Mandie Sellars | May 13, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
The trial of Cameron Broadwell (pictured above) ended with a guilty plea. He will not serve any time in prison for terrorizing Kyron Hinton, but he will never work as a law enforcement officer in North Carolina again. He will do 200 hours of community service and...
by Mandie Sellars | May 12, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director I was 18 years old the first time I can recall seeing a law enforcement officer stand trial for using the power of a badge to terrorize a Black person. The video of Rodney King’s dehumanizing and brutal beating happened on my 17th...
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...
