Weekly Digest

Reforms in the local criminal justice system aim to address racial disparities

Fear of a Black Uprising: Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing

‘That’s why we have clemency,’ says legislator on calls for governor to free Ronnie Long

Supreme Court Sides with Jail over COVID-19 Safety

City of Lexington, NC to file lawsuit demanding relocation of Confederate monument

Duke’s Maher Underscores Importance of Public Defense in Governor’s Task Force

Common Cause files brief in NC Supreme Court case challenging race discrimination in jury selection

Asheville, Buncombe law enforcement to sign ‘officer misconduct’ agreement

An Anti-Racist Vision of Police Accountability

Eleven Prosecutors Form a Progressive Alliance in Virginia

Results of NC Study on Race and Gender in Traffic Stops

10 Ways To Reduce Our Reliance On Policing And Make Our Communities Safer For Everyone

NC woman blocked from jury for Black Lives Matter protests

How You Can Help Dismantle America’s Economic Apartheid

Governor’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice Convenes First Public Comment Session 

A black woman in NC faces prison for a voting mistake. prosecutors just doubled the charges 

Duke Center for Science and Justice Tracking Police Reform Legislation By State

Asheville Police Calls: Roadmap for Defunding?

Confessions of a Tough-on-Crime Progressive

4th Circuit spars over predictive policing; dissenter criticized for writing ‘with a smooth pen and a tin ear’

Americans agree on police reforms that have divided Washington, new poll shows

Statue of former chief justice Thomas Ruffin to be removed from Court of Appeals building

Gov Cooper announces appointees to Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, includes NC CRED members Jim Woodall, Marcia Morey, and Tarrah Callahan

Getting Judges on the Side of Abolition

You Can Get Kicked Out of a Jury Pool For Supporting Black Lives Matter

Voting in Jails

Want to Reform the Criminal Justice System? Focus on Prosecutors

Data show racial disparity in NC justice system in black and white

Failing Grades: States’ Responses to COVID-19 in Jails & Prisons

Racial Justice Act ruling a victory for justice across North Carolina

Inside the New Push to Expose America’s White Supremacist Cops

‘Second Chance Act’ Signed into Law

How Can the NC Judicial College Help Combat Systemic Racism?

Chapel Hill council changes police policies, plans dialogue

Hearing Impacted Voices: A Moderated Panel Discussion on Inequality, Policing and Injustice

Black Lives Matter About More Than Police

If We Truly Value Black Lives, End Stand-Your-Ground

Veteran NC civil rights lawyer: The meaning, impact and promise of the Racial Justice Act

Being Teargassed Never Leaves You. That’s Why My City is Working to Stop its Use

Pitt County NC Commissioners Vote 7-2 to Remove Confederate Memorial

Lawyers: NC has constitutional duty to remove Confederate monuments

Superior Court Orders North Carolina to Take Action to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in State Prisons

Hope for People Who Say Racism Tainted Their Death Sentence

Explaining Racial Inequity and Policing Disparities with 20M NC Traffic Stops

The Racial Justice Act (and its history) explained

Protesters target NC Capitol monuments to Confederates

NC Chief Justice Beasley Addresses the Intersection of Justice and Protests around the State

A message from NC State Bar Association President Colon Willoughby

“Beneath the New Normal: A Statement on An Old Reality” by NAACP President and NC CRED Commissioner Reverend Dr. T. Anthony Spearman

How to Actually Fix America’s Police

Mass. Justices Urge Lawyers, Judges To Root Out Racial Bias In Court

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 Black Lives

In the Dark, The Path Home

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 Justice System

Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 ‘tinderbox’ in NC prisons

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 COVID-19, Warns of Disparate Impact

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 Finally Addresses Racism in the Jury Box

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 Judge Considering Whether to Order More Robust COVID-19 Prison Response

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 | The Crime Report

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

Virginia Ends Debt-Based Driver’s License Suspensions

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 to Demand Governor, State Officials Protect Incarcerated People From COVID-19 | ACLU of North Carolina

Gov. Cooper Must Saves Lives of Those Living and Working in NC Prisons

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 in case challenging qualified immunity

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit

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 Are Helping Shrink Jails to Stop Outbreaks. Others Are Lagging Behind : The Appeal

San Francisco DA Says COVID-19 Won’t End Without Criminal Justice Reform

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 Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab

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

What would you ask someone on Death Row?

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 Black People and a Taste for Violent Punishment

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

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

Greensboro Event Fuels Movement to Reform Criminal Justice Fines and Fees

People Serving Life Exceeds Entire Prison Population of 1970

Order Affirming Preliminary Injunction re. Florida Amendment That Automatically Restored Voting Rights to Ex-Felons

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 May Finally Address Racism in Jury Selection

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 Services Awarded Additional $1 Million by MacArthur Foundation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

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 inmates are still giving birth cuffed and bound

Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee – Juvenile Age Interim Report, January 2020 

Mecklenburg’s top prosecutor unveils violent-crime crackdown

Wake Forest University Spring Symposium: Bail Reform

Coercive Plea Bargaining Has Poisoned the Criminal Justice System. It’s Time to Suck the Venom Out.

Court Portrait of Writer of Notorious Slave Ruling Reviewed

Here’s what we’re reading this week:

Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2019

Guilford courts reduce bond requirements for those accused of minor, nonviolent crimes

Indigent defense systems across the country have been chronically under-resourced for decades…

Indigent defense systems across the country have been chronically under-resourced for decades, leading to a broken justice system

New York Bail Reform

Most former felons in California now eligible for jury duty

Historic Lynching and Corporal Punishment in Contemporary Southern Schools

People in Jail in 2019 | Vera Institute

We are Sending More Foster Kids to Prison than College

Students of color with disabilities are being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline

Here’s what we’re reading this week:

Rep Pressley’s Plan to Reshape Criminal Legal System

North Carolina has 37,104 people in prison…

Save the date: http://www.national-consortium.org/

Durham is reducing school suspensions, but…

NC Judge rules prosecuting 16 y.o. as adult violates his Constitutional rights

State v. Rieger COA case re. Cost and Fees

The Sentencing Project “Criminal Justice, Racial Injustice” Webinar

Students of color with disabilities are being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline

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Here’s what we’re reading this week:

The Growing Racial Disparity in Prison Time (The Marshall Project)

US Prison Population Trends: Massive Buildup and Modest Decline (The Sentencing Project) 

Barriers to Access and Inadequate Levels of Care in North Carolina Jails

Durham Expunction & Restoration Program…

North Carolina Citizens Sue for their Right to Vote

Alamance Courts Sued over Bail Policy

Steep Costs of Court Fees and Fines

Cops Making Fewer Arrests since NJ Got Rid of Cash Bail

Due Process Necessary for Racial Equity

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