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WILMINGTON, N.C. – A North Carolina Superior Court judge today agreed to end a 2017 “gang injunction” that subjected Wilmington residents whom local law enforcement accused of being gang members to probation-like conditions without a fair day in court.
RALEIGH – Four people who have spent years locked in solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the state’s use of the practice – in which people are held in cells no bigger than a parking space for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to no human contact.
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of North Carolina today sent a letter to U.S.
RALEIGH - North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper today vetoed House Bill 370, an extreme anti-immigrant bill that would force county sheriffs to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement detain and deport community members or face removal from office.
RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union, more than 70 national organizations, 40 North Carolina groups, and 80 North Carolina businesses are urging Governor Roy Cooper to veto a bill that would force all North Carolina county sheriffs to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in de