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The End of De Facto Life For Juveniles

The End of De Facto Life For Juveniles

by Elizabeth Simpson | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age

Legal Analysis by Maren Hurley Important takeaways: North Carolina’s constitution is more expansive than the federal constitution; juvenile offenders may not serve more than 40 years before parole eligibility; juvenile offenders sentenced to two or more...
Emancipate NC Joins with Wilson County NAACP To Host a Forum on Juvenile Justice

Emancipate NC Joins with Wilson County NAACP To Host a Forum on Juvenile Justice

by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Raising the Juvenile Age

Last week, Emancipate NC joined with the Wilson County NAACP to host a forum on juvenile justice at the Wilson Community College. The guest speakers were Emancipate NC Executive Director Dawn Blagrove, Attorney LaToya Powell, the Deputy General Counsel of...
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...
End Juvenile Life Without Parole

End Juvenile Life Without Parole

by Elizabeth Simpson | May 11, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Raising the Juvenile Age

On May 6, Emancipate NC filed an amicus curiae brief in the North Carolina Supreme Court in support of Darrell Tristan Anderson, a Black man who was sentenced to life in prison for crimes he committed when he was a 17-year-old child. We urge the Court to prohibit...
Re-evaluating the Cost and Consequences of Cops in Schools

Re-evaluating the Cost and Consequences of Cops in Schools

by Mandie Sellars | Oct 27, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Policing, Raising the Juvenile Age

During the month of October 2020, thousands of people are participating in National Youth Justice Awareness Month (YJAM) activities throughout the country. National Youth Justice Awareness Month was created 13 years ago by a Missouri parent, Tracy McClard, whose...
The Problem with Criminalizing Childhood Trauma

The Problem with Criminalizing Childhood Trauma

by Mandie Sellars | Jul 6, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Raising the Juvenile Age

by Tessa Hale, Emancipate NC Board Member Years ago, I worked as a mitigation specialist on death penalty cases.  In that role, I constructed humanizing social histories for defendants in cases that would be presented at the sentencing phases of their...
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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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