by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Republican Senator Rand Paul and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy have pledged to fight back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ vow to seek the longest possible sentences even for non-violent drug offenses. Paul, Leahy, and Democrat Jeff Merkley have...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
It is possible for prosecutors to be champions of progressive criminal justice reform. Larry Krasner, a former civil rights attorney who has never been a prosecutor, has taken the lead to win the Democratic nomination over several experienced prosecutors and a former...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
A bill has been introduced in the House which would require sex offenders to pay an initial registration fee of ninety dollars and an annual registration fee of ninety dollars on the anniversary of the initial registration date. The attorney general would recover...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Raising the Juvenile Age
With a 104 to 8 vote, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed the Raise The Age bill. The Senate now has the bill for consideration. The Senate budget does include policy language supporting Raise The Age legislation, however no funds were allocated in the...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
In an article written by Gretchen Engle, Executive Director of the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, Engle deconstructs the myth that the death penalty punishes the “worst of the worst” offenders. The article explains that instead, death sentences are...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 7, 2017 | Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty
A man in Florida who was facing two death sentences has been exonerated. Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., a former sergeant, had been previously convicted of murdering his lover and their 15-month-old child in 2007. The Florida Supreme Court held that the evidence was...
