by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Justice League, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Phillip Smith, a friend of Emancipate NC, is the Editor of Nash News, a publication created and produced entirely by Nash Correctional Residents at the Correction Enterprises Print Plant. The last issue featured a story about Emancipate NC, including profiles of...
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...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Image depicts Kerwin Pittman (left), standing behind Governor Roy Cooper as he signs SB 300 into law on September 2, 2021. On September 2, 2021, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 300: Criminal Justice Reform into law, aligning with some of the recommendations of...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Sep 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Legislative Updates, Uncategorized
Essay by J Hallen; Photo Credit The Daily Tar Heel Whenever the brutality of state-sanctioned repression reaches a certain extreme, the people of this nation rise up against the never-ending wave of police brutality, police murders, and targeted mass incarceration....
by Elizabeth Simpson | Jul 15, 2021 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Image depicts Kerwin Pittman underneath a big red hat. Through his nonprofit organization that he founded when he came home from prison, Reducing Recidivism Educational Program Services (RREPS), Emancipate NC organizer Kerwin Pittman has started a program to help...
by Elizabeth Simpson | May 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Ending the Death Penalty, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Bond Motion Reveals That Defendant in Lake Gaston Home Invasion May Be Innocent; Has Been Unfairly Tried In the Media Warrenton, NC, May 20, 2021–Countless sensational news stories have already convicted Lester Kearney of the capital murder of Dr. Nancy Alford...
