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Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

Hallelujah! This week, Emancipate clients Shannon Nyamodi (second from right, pictured with his mother) and Sandy Dowell (left, pictured with her wife) were given release papers from state prison, after months of relentless advocacy.  Sandy served 30 years in...
Emancipate NC Seeks Constitutional and Humane Conditions for NC Returning Citizens

Emancipate NC Seeks Constitutional and Humane Conditions for NC Returning Citizens

by Mandie Sellars | Jan 24, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized

Mr. Erik Hooks, SecretaryMs. Jodi Harrison, Deputy General Counsel N.C. Department of Public Safety Re: Durham “COVID Motel” Dear Secretary Hooks and Attorney Harrison, As an organization that is based in Durham and focused on criminal justice issues, we have followed...
Emancipate NC Files Amicus Brief Asserting Racial Bias in Jury Selection is Beyond Dispute

Emancipate NC Files Amicus Brief Asserting Racial Bias in Jury Selection is Beyond Dispute

by Mandie Sellars | Nov 16, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

Racism is a scourge on North Carolina’s criminal legal system. It renders the system fundamentally unfair at every single step. From decisions about policing, arrest, use of force, bail setting, charging, plea negotiations, jury selection, and sentencing–all of...
Both Red and Blue States See Major Decriminalization Wins in 2020

Both Red and Blue States See Major Decriminalization Wins in 2020

by Mandie Sellars | Nov 4, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

by Mandie Sellars, Emancipate NC Board Chair Looking beyond the presidential race, November 3, 2020 marked an important day of progress towards decarcerating the United States. Several states passed measures that legalized either medical or recreational marijuana use,...

Watch Now: The Impact of Incarceration on Communities, Families, and Children

by Mandie Sellars | Oct 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

On October 13, 2020, the Wilson Branch of the NC NAACP hosted a conversation on the impact of incarceration on communities, families, and children, especially in rural NC counties. Speakers included: Attorney Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director of Emancipate NC,...
New Billboards Affirm Black Lives in Harnett County

New Billboards Affirm Black Lives in Harnett County

by Mandie Sellars | Oct 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration

In late September, Emancipate NC partnered with Breathe (Board for a Racially Equitable Transformed Harnett County) Harnett to raise additional billboards in support of Black lives. The messages on the billboard were crafted by the members of Breath Harnett to empower...
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About

Emancipate NC was founded on the knowledge that mass incarceration and structural racism harm all of us. Prison is state-sponsored violence. We are all complicit in its harms. As an organization, we are dedicated to shifting the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education and mobilization. The mainstream narrative that criminalizes Black and Brown people must be transformed—so that we can all get free.  Emancipate NC is a project of the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

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