ACLU N.C.: Civil Rights Organizations Announce Settlement Agreement Securing at Least 3,500 Early Releases From State Prisons in COVID-19 Lawsuit
RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 26 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina issued the following news release on Feb. 25, 2021:
Parties have reached a landmark settlement in NC NAACP v. Cooper, a lawsuit brought by civil rights organizations, three individual incarcerated people, and a spouse of an incarcerated person, challenging the conditions of confinement in North Carolina's state prisons as unconstitutional during the COVID-19 pandemic. The settlement will result . . .
Parties have reached a landmark settlement in NC NAACP v. Cooper, a lawsuit brought by civil rights organizations, three individual incarcerated people, and a spouse of an incarcerated person, challenging the conditions of confinement in North Carolina's state prisons as unconstitutional during the COVID-19 pandemic. The settlement will result . . .