Fifty-six people died in jails in 2020, up from 49 in 2019, according to a report that Disability Rights North Carolina released Thursday.
Lynn Bonner
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UNC Program for Black Doulas and Black Mothers Aims to Improve Maternal Health and Create a Workforce Pipeline
The program augments the traditional doula training with information specific to Black women, and all the training is by instructors of color.
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US Supreme Court Denies NC GOP Appeal Over Court-Drawn Congressional Districts
The Supreme Court’s denial means that North Carolina congressional districts are officially set for the 2022 election. Candidate filing ended on Friday.
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Medicaid Expansion Would Improve NC Rural Residents’ Health and Local Economies, Say Experts
Rural North Carolinians are disproportionately uninsured compared to residents of suburban and urban counties; rural counties represent 20 of 22 counties in the state where more than 20 percent of adults younger than 65 don’t have health insurance.
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Judges Replace the NC Congressional Redistricting Plan. The State Supreme Court Denies All Requests for a Stay.
Candidate filing under the revised maps starts this morning.
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New NC Congressional and State Senate District Maps With No Democratic Support Go to Judicial Review
Democrats have been promoting an alternative plan they say would keep the Sandhills counties together in one district. Rep. Zack Hawkins, a Durham Democrat, offered that plan up again Thursday and had it shot down on a 51-68 party-line vote.
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NC Legislative Leaders Wanted a Gerrymandering Mastermind to Help Judge Redistricting Plans
Special masters who will help evaluate new redistricting plans: Former Supreme Court Justices Bob Edmunds and Bob Orr, and former UNC System President Tom Ross, who was previously a Superior Court Judge
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NC House Approves a New Redistricting Plan With Some Changes Democrats Wanted, But the Debate Over New Maps Is Not Over
Republican leaders negotiated a deal with Democratic leader Rep. Robert Reives Wednesday. The results were changes in Republicans’ new proposed map to districts in Wake, Buncombe, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg.
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Can NC Legislators Elected from Unconstitutional Districts Propose Changing the Constitution?
The legislature cannot rely on votes from legislators elected from illegally gerrymandered districts to put proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot, said Kym Hunter, a lawyer representing the NAACP.
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Moore: NC Republicans Consider a U.S. Supreme Court Appeal in Redistricting
Moore told talk radio show host Pete Kaliner that legislators would “work to try to do something we think the court would uphold” and that Republicans are considering an appeal to the nation’s highest court.