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Toia Presents Proposed DSS and A/N/D Court Reforms to Safety & Wellness Task Force

Toia Presents Proposed DSS and A/N/D Court Reforms to Safety & Wellness Task Force

by operations | Jun 22, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation, Policing

The Durham Safety and Wellness Task Force was convened with the mission to develop proposals to increase the safety and wellness of all of Durham’s residents. Emancipate’s Toia Potts is a member of the Task Force, appointed by the Durham County Commission. Over the...
Emancipate NC Joins United for Democracy

Emancipate NC Joins United for Democracy

by operations | Jun 22, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News

Team Emancipate is proud to be part of a new national coalition, United for Democracy, to “shine a spotlight on the impact of this Supreme Court on our families, our communities, our freedoms, and our democracy.” Emancipate knows as well as anyone how much power lies...
Locked Up 20 Years for a Crime You Didn’t Commit

Locked Up 20 Years for a Crime You Didn’t Commit

by operations | Jun 8, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

Have you shared and subscribed to the Black Light Mass Incarceration Show yet? Host Cierra Cobb is dropping new episodes every Thursday full of intimate, earnest, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories. From the 17-year-old convicted for decades on...
Settlement Reached in Irving v Raleigh

Settlement Reached in Irving v Raleigh

by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing

Photo credit: Cornell Watson (Kenya Walton (L) and Yolanda Irving (R)) On May 23, 2023, the Plaintiffs in Yolanda Irving et al. v. City of Raleigh et al., reached a settlement in their federal lawsuit with the City of Raleigh for $350,000.* Plaintiffs—two Black...
“We Keep Us Safe’ Personified” — Kerwin Speaks on Durham’s HEART Program

“We Keep Us Safe’ Personified” — Kerwin Speaks on Durham’s HEART Program

by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News

Durham Beyond Policing and the Have a Heart coalition have been leading the fight for an expanded, fully-funded Holistic Empathetic Assistance Response Team (HEART) in Durham’s city budget this year. Before the city’s public budget hearing this month, the campaign...
Dawn Blagrove and Ben Crump Call for Justice for Shanquella Robinson

Dawn Blagrove and Ben Crump Call for Justice for Shanquella Robinson

by operations | Mar 29, 2023 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News

Image source: ABC 11 News In a recent press conference at Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC, national civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove demanded the federal government seek justice without delay for Shanquella Robinson, a...
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Emancipate NC was founded on the knowledge that mass incarceration and structural racism harm all of us. Prison is state-sponsored violence. We are all complicit in its harms. As an organization, we are dedicated to shifting the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education and mobilization. The mainstream narrative that criminalizes Black and Brown people must be transformed—so that we can all get free.  Emancipate NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and was previously known as the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

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