by cjpcenter_135ydg | Jun 4, 2019 | CJPC News
In partnership with the Wilson County NAACP, and CAPE, the Carolina Justice Policy Center is thrilled to announce they are one of sixteen organizations chosen to receive a Vera Institute for Justice “In Our Backyards” grant to combat mass incarceration in...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 15, 2019 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform
by Elizabeth Simpson, CJPC Associate Director Last week, a community activist called me. She told me that her friend Amanda Marriner, a formerly incarcerated woman, wanted to get married to another woman who is still in prison. However, the prison was blocking the...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 13, 2019 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform, Policing
The trial of Cameron Broadwell (pictured above) ended with a guilty plea. He will not serve any time in prison for terrorizing Kyron Hinton, but he will never work as a law enforcement officer in North Carolina again. He will do 200 hours of community service and...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 12, 2019 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director I was 18 years old the first time I can recall seeing a law enforcement officer stand trial for using the power of a badge to terrorize a Black person. The video of Rodney King’s dehumanizing and brutal beating happened on my 17th...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 8, 2019 | CJPC News, Legislative Updates
On May 7, the staff and interns of the Carolina Justice Policy Center visited with state legislators to encourage them to pass the Second Chance Act. Today in North Carolina, justice-involved people must carry their criminal record with them for life, as it...
by Dawn Blagrove | Apr 23, 2019 | CJPC News
This April, CJPC board member Kristie Puckett-Williams, the regional field director for the ACLU of North Carolina, joined Mecklenburg DA Spencer Merriweather, Mecklenburg district court judge Elizabeth Trosch, and Mecklenburg public defender Kevin Tully on the WFAE...
