ACLU – NCRSOL https://ncrsol.org Fighting for registered citizens and families Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:31:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ncrsol.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-cropped-NCFlag2-32x32.jpg ACLU – NCRSOL https://ncrsol.org 32 32 165103099 ACLU provides guide in how to respond to North Carolina leaders https://ncrsol.org/2020/03/aclu-provides-guide-in-how-to-respond-to-north-carolina-leaders/ https://ncrsol.org/2020/03/aclu-provides-guide-in-how-to-respond-to-north-carolina-leaders/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:43:59 +0000 https://ncrsol.org/?p=3850 As COVID-19 continues to spread within our communities and governments move to mitigate the spread, the ACLU will be monitoring the government’s response to ensure that it is no more intrusive on civil liberties than absolutely necessary and that any government measure is grounded in science and public health, not politics or xenophobia. And as each of us focuses on protecting the health and wellbeing of ourselves and the people closest to us, the ACLU will be working hard to advocate for the protection of people who are at high risk of being exposed to the virus and have the least amount of power to protect themselves.

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]]> https://ncrsol.org/2020/03/aclu-provides-guide-in-how-to-respond-to-north-carolina-leaders/feed/ 1 3850 Coronavirus raises health, legal concerns for NC jails https://ncrsol.org/2020/03/coronavirus-raises-health-legal-concerns-for-nc-jails/ https://ncrsol.org/2020/03/coronavirus-raises-health-legal-concerns-for-nc-jails/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:26:35 +0000 https://ncrsol.org/?p=3785 At least six of North Carolina’s largest counties are ordering the release of jail detainees as a preventive measure against COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus.

Buncombe, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake counties have all confirmed that they are releasing detainees as a means to lower jail populations. The fewer people who are in the jails, the easier it will be to enforce preventive measures — such as medically screening staff and those arrested — to keep COVID-19 out of the facilities.

If the virus gets into a jail, lower populations will mean the illness will be easier to contain and fewer people who will be exposed, which would protect both the people in jail and communities at large.

When discussing the releases, Aaron Sarver, public information officer for the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, stressed the difference between jail and prison.

The people being released from the Buncombe County Detention Center are all pretrial, Sarver said, meaning they have not been convicted of a crime.

In some cases, people convicted of low-level misdemeanors and are serving time in the jails could also be released. Prisons, by and large, hold people who have been convicted of felonies.

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