Inside A North Carolina Federal Prison With A Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak, Compromised Men Beg For Help Federal Judge Rules Florida Law Restricting Voting Rights For Felons Unconstitutional The Unmattering of […]
Weekly Digest #22
10 Ways a Roadside Police Stop Can Go Wrong U.S. Prison Decline: Insufficient to Undo Mass Incarceration Cop Fragility and Blue Lives Matter Now Is the Time to Transform the Criminal […]
Weekly Digest #21
Growing Number of States are Confronting Unconscious Racism in Jury Selection Presumption of Guilt A State-by-State Look at Coronavirus in Prisons Nation’s Criminal Defense Bar Decries Criminalization as Response to […]
Weekly Digest #20
Eight Years After Trayvon Martin, Another Young Black Man Is Chased and Killed in “Self-Defense” Realigning Probation with Our Values Voting in Jails: A New Report North Carolina Supreme Court […]
WEBINAR
Thursday, May 14
11 AM to 12:30 PM
COVID-19: Implications of the Pandemic within the Criminal Justice System
An interactive, roundtable webinar presented by NC CRED
Weekly Digest #19
Ramos v. Louisiana and the Jim Crow Origins of Nonunanimous Juries North Carolina’s Raise the Age Law Highlights How Schools Handle Discipline Proposal Would Teach 3rd-grade Students of Monuments’ Value […]
NC CRED Calls for Removal of Chief Justice Ruffin Portrait and Statue
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Weekly Digest #14
Bipartisan Coalition Calls on President Trump to Commute Federal Prison Sentences for Populations Most Vulnerable to COVID-19 Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 | Prison Policy Initiative Some Supreme Courts […]
Weekly Digest #13
Groups Urge NC Officials to Reduce and Protect Incarcerated Population Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak North Carolina Correctional System Responds to COVID-19 North Carolina County-Level Criminal Charging Data – UNC School of […]
Weekly Digest #12
Forever Convicted: How a program in Durham County offers legal relief to those stuck in limbo No need to wait for pandemics: The public health case for criminal justice reform […]
Weekly Digest #11
Fear of Reprisals Threatens Independence of Public Defenders and Erodes Right to Counsel Prohibiting Use of Record Check as Justification for Excusing Black Juror Slavery Gave America a Fear of […]
Weekly Digest #10
2019 North Carolina Conditions of Release Report North Carolina traffic stops show racial disparities, data says Court awards $1.5 Million to Kansas man wrongfully convicted
Weekly Digest #9
The 2015 Chapel Hill Shooting: Was It a Hate Crime? | The Marshall Project Elected Prosecutors File Amicus Brief Urging Appellate Court to Affirm Right to Counsel in Bail Hearings […]
Weekly Digest #8
Pretrial Justice Institute’s Risk Assessment Tools A Racial Equity Transformation: Pretrial Justice Institute’s Rationale NC Policy Watch: The NC Supreme Court must stop racism in jury selection North Carolina Courts […]
Weekly Digest #7
We ended race discrimination at the lunch counter; now let’s ban it in the jury box From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial Criminal Justice […]
Weekly Digest #6
Chapel Hill to Assist with Unpaid Court Fees Illinois Eliminates Driver’s License Suspension for Non-Moving Violations Harnessing Data from North Carolina’s Jails to Inform Effective Policies Pregnant and shackled: why […]
A statement on the formation of the Advisory Commission on Portraits by the by the NC Supreme Court:
“As a recent op-ed revealed in the News & Observer this week, the over-sized portrait of Thomas Ruffin, a 19th century NC Supreme Court Justice who strongly espoused pro-slavery views […]
150th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 14th Amendment
JOIN NC COMMISSION ON RACIAL & ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR #DEFENDTHE14TH This event will inform participants of the historical implications of the 14th Amendment and how […]
NC-CRED, part of the ABA Racial Justice Improvement Project
The ABA Racial Justice Improvement Project, Halifax County, and the North Carolina Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (NCCRED) collaborated to work as the North Carolina Task Force in Halifax County. The Task Force focused on identifying discretionary decision points in the adjudication process that contributed to practices adversely impacting people of color and correcting such racially disparate practices.
Learning to Listen
The racial and ethnic disparities that mark our criminal justice system are as stark as they are real. African Americans make up a total of 22% of the North […]
“Criminal Justice Debt: Punishing the Poor in North Carolina” | Wednesday, May 15, 2018
NC-CRED to Co-sponsor Spotlight Conference: “Criminal Justice Debt: Punishing the Poor in North Carolina.” Please join us for this important discussion on ways to reform the criminal justice debt trap. Agenda and registration will be available soon.
ABA JusticeHack Durham, Saturday April 7, 2018
ABA JusticeHack Durham: “Unity in the Community: Diminishing Division and Creating Collaboration For Impact“ Saturday, April 7th, 2018 @ North Carolina Central University School of Law: 640 Nelson Street Durham, NC, 27707. […]
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Community Policing Symposium a Success
NC CRED, along with the Wake Forest University School of Law Criminal Justice Program, the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy, and the Wake Forest University Rethinking Community series, […]
Community-Centered Policing Symposium – Friday, November 3rd, 2017
This symposium, entitled New Law and Order: Working Towards Equitable and Community-Centered Policing in North Carolina, will be a full-day event meant to engage decision-making stakeholders-law enforcement professionals, district attorneys […]
Commission Calls for Immediate Removal of Confederate Artifacts
R E S O L U T I O N By the North Carolina Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System on September 5, 2017: WHEREAS, […]
What are the first steps to dismantling mass incarceration?
At our October 1st Symposium: Understanding & Dismantling Mass Incarceration, we asked the audience members to tell us what they thought the most urgent issue regarding this large, overwhelming structure […]
Lessons from the Mass Incarceration Symposium
“If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, […]
Pretrial Release Conference on Thursday, October 15, 2015
NC-CRED is co-sponsoring a Conference on Pretrial Release with the North Carolina Pretrial Services Association on October 15, 2015 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The event will feature nationally recognized experts […]
Understanding Mass Incarceration Symposium on Thursday, October 1st, 2015
THE SYMPOSIUM WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! Thanks to all who came out! The Symposium will now be held at the NC Bar Association at 8000 Weston Parkway in Cary. This […]