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We see Zion Lemelle's manicured hands holding up a "You Can Vote" eligibility checklist card.

Getting out the vote in jail, during a pandemic

by Hannah Critchfield October 5, 2020January 29, 2021

We see a hand holding a cardboard sign that says, "#Free Them All" sticking out the passenger window of a compact white car passing the Durham County Detention Facility. The car is part of a caravan of protestors calling for the release of inmates who are unable to pay bail during the pandemic. It's Father's Day, 2020.

Even as NC’s COVID numbers stabilize, jail outbreaks spike

by Hannah Critchfield August 11, 2020January 29, 2021