by Mandie Sellars | May 9, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
On April 26, 2018, The Equal Justice Initiative opened the Memorial for Peace and Justice. It also opened the Legacy Museum, which tells the stories of the over 4,000 people killed by racial terror lynchings in the century after the Civil War. The museum highlights...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Kwame Teague is incarcerated at Warren Correctional Institution in North Carolina. Recently, after a six year process, Teague successfully petitioned to have humanism officially recognized as a religion by the North Carolina prison system. The American Humanist...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In a series of articles published last year, the News and Observer exposed rampant corruption in North Carolina prisons. In response, state lawmakers asked DPS to provide information about crimes committed by prison employees while on the job. A review of these crimes...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
Do you think judges should be shamed for refusing to criminalize poverty? As CJPC has reported before, the state legislature has enacted a plan to discourage judges from waiving court fines and fees. The legislature has required noticed to be mailed to every state or...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News
The Carolina Justice Policy Center and the North Carolina ACLU have partnered together to provide a district attorney candidate questionnaire for the upcoming May 8th primary elections. The questionnaire is designed to help voters assess which candidates support...
by Mandie Sellars | May 1, 2018 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
The University of Virginia School of Law has created a new online resource that allows users to explore death penalty practices in the United States from 1991 to 2017. The resource consists of an interactive map that provides data about the number of death sentences...
