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Emancipate NC files amicus brief about over-policing of Black communities

Emancipate NC files amicus brief about over-policing of Black communities

by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing

Yesterday, associate director Elizabeth Simpson filed an amicus brief in the North Carolina Supreme Court in State v. Johnson, a case about how criminal defendants can prove racial profiling and selective enforcement of the law. Using new data analysis from public...
Calling Incarcerated Artists!

Calling Incarcerated Artists!

by Elizabeth Simpson | Jan 6, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration

Image depicts artwork by Emancipate NC client, Ashlee Inscoe. Calling all incarcerated artists! Inspired by the creativity and resilience of our siblings in jail and prison, Emancipate NC will launch a site to showcase the talent of incarcerated artists....
Dawn Blagrove Argues at NC Supreme Court

Dawn Blagrove Argues at NC Supreme Court

by Elizabeth Simpson | Dec 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age

As previously reported, Executive Director Dawn Blagrove was invited to give oral argument in a Juvenile Life-without-Parole case at the North Carolina Supreme Court last month, after Emancipate NC submitted an amicus brief on behalf...
Emancipate NC & Team File Suit For Prison Censorship

Emancipate NC & Team File Suit For Prison Censorship

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...
Abolish Solitary Confinement Already

Abolish Solitary Confinement Already

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...
Emancipate NC Files Writ of Mandamus

Emancipate NC Files Writ of Mandamus

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...
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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 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and was previously known as the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

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PO Box 309
Durham, NC 27702
(919) 682-1149

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