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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
