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The Time is Now: Pregnant People Incarcerated in North Carolina Must be Released.

Being pregnant in prison is a humiliating, dehumanizing, and dangerous experience in the best of circumstances. Pregnant incarcerated people have to fear loss of reproductive choices, shackling, and solitary confinement, as well as the inevitable separation from their newborns.

March 31, 2020

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

A prison sentence should not become a death sentence. But our prisons are ill-equipped to handle the likely outbreak of COVID-19.

March 30, 2020

This is No Time to Play Politics with our Democracy

To ensure elections proceed and eligible Americans can vote, any federal legislative package addressing the impact of COVID-19 on our elections must include an immediate, substantial infusion of federal funding and federal requirements for no-excuse mail-in absentee voting and early in-person voting

March 23, 2020

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