SCSJ works to ensure fair enforcement of the law regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender identity, affilation, and other protected criteria. We work against racial profiling, police brutality, and other abuses of the criminal justice system, and to end programs that violate human rights, such as 287g and juvenile life without parole.
We also work with communities and advocates to develop innovative and grassroots ways to address conflict and create safer and more peaceful spaces. We hope this work allows communities to improve their security and well-being without using policing and law enforcement solutions.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
WNCT Eyewitness News 9
The N.C. Supreme Court ruled in the controversial case involving men and women who were given life sentences between 1974 and 1978, that they would not be given credit for good time, denying them, in the words of the dissenting justices, "fundamental fairness."
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Carolina Peacemaker
The five young people who were arrested at a May 4 Greensboro City Council meeting had their day in court this past Monday, July 26. According to Morris, the group’s attorney, Becky Jaffe of Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham, asked the judge for “a prayer for judgment,” which called for a dismissal of charges upon payment of court costs.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Greensboro News & Record
Five people who were arrested while protesting at a City Council meeting in May pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree trespassing in Guilford County District Court. District Court Judge Wendy Enochs entered a prayer for judgment continued, which means there is no conviction on record. The five were represented by Becky Jaffe, a staff attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
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Monday, June 28, 2010
WITN Eastern NC News
Do Greenville Police Officers use racial profiling? It's a question that's been a hot topic ever since the arrest of City Councilwoman Kandie Smith last month. The NAACP, the UNC Center for Civil Rights, and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice hosted a forum for residents to present their concerns to a hearing panel.
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
YES! Weekly
A week after back-to-back protests in which college students and area ministers committed civil disobedience to highlight what they characterize as a culture of corruption and double standards in the Greensboro Police Department, the state president of the NAACP announced he was seeking an outside review by state and federal agencies.
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
WRAL
Thousands of North Carolinians attend the 3rd annual HKonJ march in Raleigh to demand progressive changes in state and national policy.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Independent Weekly
Community activists worry that "Secure Communities" program in Orange County, NC will lead to racial profiling.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Yes Weekly
Typographical error, procedural delay, mar criminal case against security guard accused of assaults.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
ABC 11 News
SHROC Conference attendees protest the 287g program at the Wake County Jail.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
MyNC
Protest of 287g program as part of the SHROC Conference
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Yes Weekly
The right to associate freely is ignored in Greensboro by anti-gang police units.
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