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Black Woman Who Faced Up to 19 Months in Prison for Voting While on Probation Now Facing More Charges

There is something especially cruel and nefarious about the willingness of legal officials to take a person’s freedom away just for voting when they weren’t supposed to be. A 32-year-old Black woman in North Carolina was charged with a felony in 2016 for voting while on probation for another crime. She said she was unaware…

By

Zack Linly

Published

July 23, 2020
Criminal Justice, News, Social Justice

Black Woman Faces Prison Over Voting Law Created to ‘Rescue White People From the Curse of Negro Domination’

The morning after suffering a miscarriage in July, Lanisha Bratcher came face-to-face with yet another cruel reality of being black in America. Police barged into her North Carolina home “like the Dukes of Hazzard” and according to the Guardian, she was informed that despite the unspeakable loss that she was still processing, there was a…

By

Jay Connor

Published

December 16, 2019