by operations | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Earlier this week, Emancipate’s Kerwin Pittman accepted his reappointment by Governor Cooper to the NC Taskforce for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC). In this role, Kerwin has helped propose much-needed changes to the state’s criminal justice system...
by operations | Oct 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
As abortion bans and restrictions are rushed into place across the country, what does it mean for patients, providers, and advocates who now may be charged with providing, assisting, or obtaining an abortion? What happens when vague laws and emergency situations...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Legislative Updates
The following summary of Senate Bill 660 comes from our Justice League Fellow and summer intern, Kyla Holton. The proliferation of publish-for-pay entities publishing booking photographs is a problem that prevents people from achieving a fresh start with housing and...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Image depicts Kerwin Pittman (left), standing behind Governor Roy Cooper as he signs SB 300 into law on September 2, 2021. On September 2, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 300: Criminal Justice Reform into law, aligning with some of the recommendations of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Essay by J Hallen; Photo Credit The Daily Tar Heel Whenever the brutality of state-sanctioned repression reaches a certain extreme, the people of this nation rise up against the never-ending wave of police brutality, police murders, and targeted mass incarceration....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 30, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Mass Incarceration
Photo depicts Phillip Vance Smith II. Currently, in North Carolina, there are 1627 incarcerated people who are sentenced to life in prison (News and Observer). Phillip Vance Smith II and Tim Johnson are two of them. In an environment where two out of three meals a day...
