BIPOC community members shared real stories about policing, race and justice in Chatham and Orange counties in a digital panel held by local government stakeholders and community organizers.
Orange County's criminal justice system disadvantages low-income residents, according to a new report by the Orange County Bail/Bond Justice Project. Work is being done, though, to make the system more just.
The Town of Chapel Hill is creating a Fund for Criminal Justice Debt for the neediest defendants. The fund will include $20,000 that will be used to help defendants pay their court debts. Council members hope the fund will help defendants reintegrate into society.
Since the 2002 Greene Tract resolution was adopted, several different land-use needs have been suggested, but no development has started on the lot.
The organization is working to establish a $50,000 revolving bail fund that will be used to post low-cost bail for people in the county who cannot afford to pay it so that individuals can continue their lives while waiting for trial.
The plaintiffs are seeking to represent all current and future people held in DPS custody, and they are suing for declaratory and injunctive relief. If successful, this lawsuit could dramatically change the practices involving solitary confinement in North Carolina.
Until August, the Orange County Detention Center charged $3 for every cash deposit made for inmates through an Oasis ATM. The new agreement, signed by the Orange County Sheriff's Office and Oasis Commissary Services, serves to abolish those fees.
Jack Corbin, an alias under which 31-year-old Daniel McMahon promoted fascist rhetoric, has been tied to several attacks on UNC students and faculty over the last year. McMahon was arrested Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice.
" If we want our criminal justice system to live up to the ideal of 'justice,' then we must stop imprisoning people for their poverty and abolish the cash bail system."
Simple assault charges brought against UNC professor Dwayne Dixon from the night of Silent Sam's toppling were dropped on Thursday morning at the Orange County Courthouse.
Christopher Cates, the previous public works superintendent for the Town of Carrboro, coincidently resigned in October — and thanks to an anonymous tip, the Carrboro Police Department has discovered that he was involved with embezzlement and common law forgery.
If you've driven on Interstate 40 recently, you may have noticed a new addition to the highway sign scene. Following Kavanaugh's confirmation, a Hillsborough activism group set out to make their message impossible to ignore.
The University recently outlined how a drug conviction affects federal financial aid eligibility.
Two million people are currently imprisoned in the United States.
“The opportunity is to enhance your education by having a deeper personal connection to somebody that’s really lived through a nightmare,” professor Frank Baumgartner said.
President Donald Trump proclaimed last week, April 2 to April 8, to be National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
Under North Carolina law, some individuals whose first-time offenses were committed under the age of 18, or whose first-time offenses are more than 15-years old, are eligible to have their criminal records expunged.
Prisons in North Carolina have seen a rise in the use of synthetic marijuana in the past two years. The man-made drug can be 100 times more potent than marijuana and has sent a number of inmates to the hospital.
North Carolina juveniles convicted of first degree murder between the years of 1994 and 2012 had one option: life in prison without parole.
There are 56 state prisons in North Carolina and nearly 38,000 people in the system
