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...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Aug 16, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Kerwin Pittman gave powerful testimony at the General Assembly on H.B. 805, the anti-political protest bill that would create felony penalties for activities deemed to be “riots” and any “assault” on emergency personnel, even without the causation of a physical...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jul 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Policing
On July 14, 2021, Dawn Blagrove and Kerwin Pittman went to the North Carolina General Assembly to visit lawmakers and talk about SB 300, the criminal justice reform bill. This week, police asked for a change to the body camera portion of the bill to make it harder for...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Policing
Photo credit: Simone Hogan / Shutterstock.com Emancipate NC is an organization working on behalf of Black and Brown North Carolinians directly impacted by systemic racism and insufferable injustice. The undersigned strongly oppose SB 100. We write to oppose the...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
This image, depicting Durham’s COVID motel, the Quality Inn, was borrowed from the Indy Week. The photographer is Jade Wilson. By Aneesha Tucker, Emancipate NC Intern On January 22, 2021, the News and Observer reported that North Carolina prisons planned to...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 26, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates
Today, Emancipate NC joined with our partners at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the ACLU of North Carolina to protect the rights of protesters in North Carolina. First, on behalf of community groups including, Raleigh Police Accountability...
