Settlement secures release of 3,500 incarcerated people from state prisons
A recent legal settlement will result in 3,500 people incarcerated in North Carolina being released.
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A recent legal settlement will result in 3,500 people incarcerated in North Carolina being released.
Two attorneys are vying for the position of chief public defender in the Orange and Chatham judicial district. The position was left vacant after the former chief public defender, Susan Seahorn, retired in late 2020.
UNC sophomore Greear Webb has been appointed to a statewide committee geared toward youth justice led by Gov. Roy Cooper.
One day each year, the Durham County Detention Facility – a beige-gray structure that looms over DPAC on S. Mangum Street – is flooded with music and chanting, smiles and hugs.
For formerly incarcerated people in North Carolina, the beginning of September brought news of re-enfranchisement just eight weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Two artists created a photography and poetry project called "Our Lens, Our Voice" to reframe the narratives of justice-impacted youth in Orange County.
For the second time, Marcus Reymond Robinson has been taken off death row.
The North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice held a listening session Friday for the Triangle area to discuss issues and ideas for criminal justice reform.
In the wake of ongoing protests against police brutality, local activists have called for changes to the criminal justice system.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners held a virtual listening session Tuesday night in partnership with the sheriff’s office and Human Relations Commission to hear public comments on policing and racial justice issues.
Chatham and Orange county residents shared their personal experiences as Black, Indigenous and other people of color in a panel on Monday sponsored by community organizers and local leaders.
A report released earlier this month said Orange County’s system of bail and pretrial detention is unjust and disproportionately penalizes people who are unable to pay, especially people of color.
The Town of Chapel Hill has piloted a new fund to help the neediest defendants pay off their debt to the court.
On Wednesday, the Chapel Hill Town Council met to discuss the creation of a criminal justice debt fund, the Greene Tract and the process of rewriting the town's main development regulations.
The Orange County Bail/Bond Justice Project formed recently to advocate for creating a more just bail and pretrial system in Orange County. Started as a faith-based project of Binkley Baptist Church in January, the organization was certified as a nonprofit on Sept. 30.
A lawsuit was filed Oct. 16 against the N.C. Department of Public Safety to challenge the state’s use of solitary confinement.
The automated teller machine in the Orange County Detention Center lobby will no longer impose a direct fee on those making cash deposits on behalf of incarcerated individuals.
The U.S. Department of Justice arrested a man on Wednesday who has long coordinated death threats, harassment and personal information exposure throughout the country, including toward UNC students and faculty.
There are about 2.3 million people incarcerated in the United States today, more than any other country in total, or per capita. There are multiple factors that have led to this mass incarceration, but a significant one is the way that the criminal justice system is stacked against the poor: a striking example is the legal institution of cash bail bonds. A cash bail bond requires defendants to provide an immediate payment to the court, to be returned when the court’s requirements are met.
Charges against UNC professor Dwayne Dixon were dropped on Thursday morning at the Orange County Courthouse.