by Mandie Sellars | Apr 2, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
I am sitting here, working from home, listening to the buzz of my full house. During this pandemic, I find this bustle immeasurably comforting, but it also reminds me that there are mothers in my state who do not have full houses because they have a child in a North...
by Mandie Sellars | Mar 24, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
This week, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emancipate NC’s advocacy work has been thrust into a virtual mode. We have come together in Zoom meetings and conference calls with allies in all parts of the state to make strong demands to our officials to keep our...
by Mandie Sellars | Feb 7, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
On Thursday, January 23, 2020, over 100 residents gathered at Wilson Community College to learn more about the school to prison pipeline in Wilson County, including strategies for better supporting youth of color. The event was entitled “Juvenile Injustice: Pathways...
by Mandie Sellars | Sep 13, 2019 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Attorney Dawn Blagrove, CJPC Executive Director Most Mothers never stop wanting to protect their children from harm. For mothers of Black sons, two of the most dreaded harms are getting sent to prison and dying. With today’s plague of mass incarceration...
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 22, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
On Saturday, January 19, CJPC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove joined Judge Josephine Kerr Davis, Durham District Attorney Satana Deberry, leaders of African-American Caucus of the NC Democratic Party, and others to discuss criminal justice reform in North Carolina....
by Mandie Sellars | Jan 10, 2019 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
By Allison Bunker, CJPC Intern When we examine the current state of justice in America there seems to be no rationality for why we incarcerate 2.3 million people. Yet if we peel away the layers of the prison system a possible answer comes to light: corporate...
