The North Carolina Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (NC CRED) is calling on the North Carolina Supreme Court to remove the life-sized portrait of former Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin inside its courtroom as well as the statue of him outside the entrance to NC Court of Appeals.
Archives for April 2020
Weekly Digest #18
First Offender in State Prison Custody Dies of COVID-19 The Explosion of Unpaid Criminal Fines and Fees in North Carolina Policing In Time of Pandemic Why Drug Courts Fail | […]
Weekly Digest #17
Law Enforcement Leaders: Ensuring Justice & Public Safety Policy Report What’s Handcuffing the Criminal Justice System in Charlotte? Advocates, experts: DPS COVID-19 initiative not enough to save incarcerated peoples’ lives […]
ACLU, OTHER GROUPS URGE GOVERNOR COOPER TO PROTECT INCARCERATED PEOPLE & STOP THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Weekly Digest #16
Driven to Failure: An Empirical Analysis of Driver’s License Suspension in North Carolina Fees, Fines, Bail, and the Destitution Pipeline | Duke Law Journal Civil Rights Groups File Emergency Lawsuit […]
Weekly Digest #15
Should NC free prisoners to reduce Coronavirus spread? Judge moves to prevent COVID-19 outbreak in Mecklenburg (Charlotte) jail NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (LDF) file an en banc petition […]