by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Philip Vance Smith II, an incarcerated Emancipate NC client, wrote about prison overcrowding in North Carolina in the Huffington Post, concluding that safety requires massive releases from prison: In 2002, I was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Come out to the Verses from Within: Artistic Resilience on Death Row from Creativity to Commutation event on April 21, 2024, from 3:30-5:30 PM for a benefit for the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. There will be...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
On April 11, Emancipate NC Investigator Margaux Lander and attorneys Christine Umeh and Kaushiki Chowdhury presented about parents’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights at the ABA Parent Defense Conference. Every day, parents’...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
On April 11, Raleigh PACT, SOS Agency, and Emancipate NC co-sponsored a Community Conversation on Modern Day Lynching. Dr. Kimberly Muktarian shared the connections between the racial terror of lynchings and the modern racial terror of state-sanctioned police...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC Board member Kristie Puckett and Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson traveled to Yale Law School to the Arthur Liman Conference on public health and incarceration this month. Elizabeth was a Liman Fellow in North Carolina...
by operations | Apr 17, 2024 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
As 4/20 approaches, Emancipate NC reminds you not to plead guilty to possession of marijuana! Make the State prove their case! If you are near Greenville or Charlotte this weekend, come out for our 4/20 events. Team Emancipate will host Don’t Plead to Weed...
