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...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Mar 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Uncategorized
Following an intervention from Emancipate NC, the NC Department of Public Safety announced changes to procedures at its “COVID motel” in Durham, which the department has used since late 2020 to quarantine people being released from DPS custody. The changes are in...
by Elizabeth Simpson | Feb 22, 2021 | Criminal Justice Reform, Emancipate NC News, Policing, Uncategorized
Photo credits: Jade Wilson By Aneesha Tucker, Emancipate NC Intern On January 30, 2021, Fuquay-Varina Police unreasonably handcuffed and detained Malcolm Zigler, a 14 year old Black boy, for “stealing” a dirt bike that he purchased. Zigler started working on dirt...
