ReEntry by Design

98% of incarcerated individuals will eventually leave prison and return home. We need to create opportunities for people to rebuild their lives for themselves and our community.

Incarceration and Reentry: What You Need to Know About Incarceration in North Carolina The State of Incarceration in North Carolina A tenth of North Carolina’s population, or 1.3 million people, has a criminal record. On any given day, there are roughly 91,000 people on probation or parole, and about 40,000 people are incarcerated in either a prison or jail. That’s 131,000 people ...

Join the Reimagining America Project tomorrow, Wednesday, September 22 at 5:30pm.

The Reimagining America Project welcomes law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur for a livestream conversation here on Wednesday, September 22nd at 5:30pm EST.

We will discuss Kapur’s new book, To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation's Oldest Public University, which explores the history of UNC by exposing the plain and uncomfortable truth behind the storied brick walkways, “historic” statuary, and picturesque covered well, the icon of the campus.

From the publisher, “…Geeta N. Kapur chronicles the racism within the university and traces its insidious effects on students, faculty, and even the venerable Tarheel sports programs. Kapur tells this story not as a historian, but as a citizen speaking to her fellow citizens. She relies on the historical record to tell her story, and where that record is lacking, she elaborates on that record, augmenting and deconstructing the standard chronology. Kapur explores both the Chapel Hill campus and a parallel movement in nearby Durham, where a growing Black middle class helped to create North Carolina Central University, a historically Black public university.”

Please join us!

A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism It wasn’t Black-on-Black crime. Violent video games and rap songs had nothing to do with it; nor did poverty, education, two-parent homes or the international “bootstraps” shortage. When a judge tasked researchers with explaining why Massachusetts’ Black and Latinx incarceration was so high,...

Black History of Charlotte Part 4: How Redlining, Blockbusting and 'Urban Renewal' Victimized a Community The fourth in our five-part Black History of Charlotte series explains how the so-called urban renewal process victimized a community.

https://www.wbtv.com/2020/08/26/ronnie-long-is-coming-home-attorney-says-court-will-vacate-nc-mans-conviction/

Ronnie Long, N.C. man who spent 44 years in prison, set free after r**e conviction vacated Ronnie Long has been released from prison as a court has ruled to vacate his 1976 r**e conviction. Long has maintained his innocence for four decades.

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The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration.

There are 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in law and policy, not changes in crime rates, explain most of this increase. The results are overcrowding in prisons and fiscal burdens on states, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not an effective means of achieving public safety.

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