by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Join us at Duke Divinity School on November 9, at 6:30 pm, for a panel discussion about issues at the intersection of prison and LGBTQ rights. Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson will join her former client, Amanda Marriner, a formerly-incarcerated...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
Last week, Emancipate NC Organizer Dedan Waciuri was acquitted of Resist, Delay, Obstruct misdemeanor charges, in a district court trial in Pitt County, North Carolina. Dedan was represented at trial by Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson, with assistance from UNC...
by operations | Nov 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
With critical midterm elections now less than a week away, Team Emancipate’s Dawn Blagrove has continued her Vote4Justice tour of North Carolina HBCUs. Most recently she spent an evening talking with Shaw University students about the importance of voting –...
by operations | Oct 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Earlier this month, President Biden announced federal pardons for people convicted of possession of marijuana and asked the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reclassify the drug. He stated “no one should be in jail for using or possessing...
by operations | Oct 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
Last week, Dawn Blagrove spoke at Johnson C. Smith University about the intersections between the criminal justice system and the US Constitution. The theme of the talk, “Looking Back to Go Forward,” meant dissecting how the 13th amendment allowed slavery to...
by operations | Oct 21, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration
At the annual National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) North Carolina conference, Cierra Cobb led a workshop on mental health in prisons. Unfortunately, prisons are unprepared to meet the mental health challenges of incarcerated people. The mental load of...
