by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
In recent years, North Carolina prison officials have systematically violated the First Amendment by censoring publications mailed to incarcerated people, including the popular magazine, Prison Legal News. Thousands of incarcerated people across the country rely...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Oct 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Personal commentary by Elizabeth Simpson If it wasn’t heartbreaking, it would be funny. Two weeks ago, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, through its unironically named research unit, the “Innovation Institute,” concluded: there is a body of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Oct 5, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
On September 30, 2021, Associate Director Elizabeth Simpson filed a writ of mandamus in Wake County Superior Court against Prison Commissioner Todd Ishee to compel him to transfer Ashlee Inscoe from a men’s prison to a women’s prison. Ms. Inscoe is a female intersex...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty, Gun Violence, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Emancipate NC hosted a panel discussion on The Future of Wake County Criminal Justice Reform with Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, Wake County District Attorney Candidate Damon Chetson, Emancipate NC’s Kerwin Pittman, and Save Our Sons’ Dr. Kimberly...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 27, 2021 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Emancipate NC’s Poetic Justice 2021 was a powerful testimony. Our Advocate, Cierra Cobb, and our Poet-in-Residence, Hausson Byrd, curated our poets. Cierra cultivated five currently-incarcerated poets: Phillip Vance Smith, II, Timothy Johnson, Larry...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
A coalition of legal and gender justice advocates is taking action to demand the transfer of Ashlee Inscoe, an intersex, transgender woman currently housed in a men’s prison in North Carolina, citing Eighth Amendment requirements. Emancipate NC Associate Director...
