by Mandie Sellars | Feb 7, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On Thursday, January 23, 2020, over 100 residents gathered at Wilson Community College to learn more about the school to prison pipeline in Wilson County, including strategies for better supporting youth of color. The event was entitled “Juvenile Injustice: Pathways...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
At Emancipate NC, we are thrilled to announce that our Executive Director, Dawn Blagrove, has received the 2020 King Leader Award from the Triangle Martin Luther King, Jr. Committee. Below is her winning personal essay, reflecting on how we must, as Dr. Martin Luther...
by Mandie Sellars | Dec 22, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director The American system of criminal justice is irreparably broken. There is no way to reform a system that cannibalizes the souls of all who have the misfortune to be touched by it. Those two simple truths led Carolina Justice Police...
by Mandie Sellars | Nov 7, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
The City of Raleigh is facing another lawsuit because it refuses to take the issue of police accountability seriously. According to WRAL, a 26-year-old woman claims that she was inappropriately touched by RPD officer K.E. Van Althius. A retired police officer who...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 13, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
(Read full story from the Public News Service) Police officers in Wilson County are taking steps to reduce the region’s high incarceration rate by issuing citations to people for nonviolent misdemeanors, rather than arresting them. Criminal-justice reform...
by Mandie Sellars | Oct 11, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
Emancipate NC, a project of Carolina Justice Policy Center (CJPC), is a statewide criminal justice policy center. In reviewing the cell phone footage of the incident involving 18 year old girl, T’Ziah Kelly, we cannot find any justifiable reason for the level of...
