Will Cooper issue more clemency for NC prisoners? A vigil outside his house demands it.

Written By Decarcerate Now! NC

BY AVI BAJPAI | UPDATED DECEMBER 02, 2022 10:24 PM

Every day this month, advocates for the more than 30,000 people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons will gather outside the governor’s mansion in downtown Raleigh. Their message for Gov. Roy Cooper is simple. “The clemency power is a constitutional power that is vast,” says Daniel Bowes, the director of policy and advocacy at the ACLU of North Carolina. “Gov. Cooper has it within his individual ability to release people from prison, and if he wanted to truly enact a more fair criminal justice system, and clearly one that doesn’t incarcerate the highest rate of people in the world, then he could actually achieve that.”

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Decarcerate Now! NC is a broad coalition of North Carolinians calling for justice, fairness, and second chances for people incarcerated in our state prisons, especially Black people and other people of color.
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