Study: Hundreds Of North Carolina Criminals Released During COVID Later Reoffended
An NAACP and ACLU-backed deal let thousands of felons back out into the streets, with at least 18 allegedly facing murder accusations within the years that followed.
A report on recidivism among convicted criminals, released by North Carolina state officials, is drawing fresh scrutiny toward Roy Cooper, the state’s former governor and current Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate.
The New York Post recently reviewed data from the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission.
The commission reviewed what happened to the thousands of felons released in 2021 due to alleged COVID overcrowding in the state system. The mass release occurred following a settlement reached between the Cooper administration and the NAACP and the ACLU.
“At least 3,500 convicts were released as part of a little-known settlement between Cooper’s administration and civil rights groups in February 2021 — and The Post found more than 600 of those later committed serious felonies like homicides, sex offenses, or other violent crimes,” the news outlet reported.
This includes 18 prisoners “[who] have been charged with murder in the four years since.”
The campaign of Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley has criticized Cooper’s handling of the situation.
Cooper’s campaign team says he fought the release of the prisoners, calling the accusations “blatant lies.”
Even if he did fight the release, the mass release of prisoners in 2021 and thereafter is an indictment of left-wing “civil rights” groups that worked to get them released.
“What’s happening in North Carolina prisons is the convergence of two pandemics both fueled by racism and classism – COVID 19 and an unjust criminal legal system,” North Carolina NAACP President Anthony Spearman said in 2021.
Spearman stated further:
Even as we celebrate this monumental step in our efforts through this lawsuit, we must acknowledge that a disproportionate number of those marginalized, oppressed, and put in harm’s way by being incarcerated during the pandemic are melanin-rich, working poor, or both.
“The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Disability Rights North Carolina and other advocacy groups joined onto the NAACP’s complaint filed in Wake County in April 2020,” WFAE previously reported.
However, short of being a victory for the “marginalized” or against “racism,” at least some of the felons who were released later went out and allegedly inflicted violence on black citizens.
One criminal “was arrested and charged with the murder of Elante’ Thompson, 23, on Jan. 29, 2022, after being set free in July 2021 following multiple jail stints over the preceding decade for grand larcenies, breaking and entering, and assault by strangulation of a female with an unborn child,” the NY Post reported.
[Featured image courtesy of North Carolina Department of Adult Correction]
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They simply believe black criminals should be allowed to hurt and kill people. Nothing else makes sense.
A recidivism rate of roughly 1/6?
I’m amazed it was that low.
Not all lawbreakers get caught.
In North Carolina, roughly 48% of murders and nearly 81% of rapes reported to law enforcement in 2024 went unsolved.
cause it would be racist to solve them
“What’s happening in North Carolina prisons is the convergence of two pandemics both fueled by racism and classism.”
The only racism here is the expectation that law abiding citizens (including those who would be alive today absent this utterly stupid action) must suffer the lawlessness perpetrated by young urban black males without pointing out the obvious statistics that show it to be true.
Further, if it’s classism not to tolerate feral behavior regardless of what ethnic group it comes from then call me Thurston Howell, III and make me a martini.
The Wuhan virus gave perennially criminal-coddling/enabling Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks the perfect excuse (from Dhimmi-crat perspectives) to give sociopath and recidivist criminals an unmerited and undeserved early release from prison. Disgraceful.
We need more prisons to warehouse more convicted prisoners. One way to free up space in existing IS to release some prisoners…. not to freedom on the streets but to the mental institutions they would have been in a few decades ago. The reality is there’s a small % of people who simply will not/can not regulate their behavior to conform with civil society. Those who will not should be sentenced to prison, those who can not should be confined to mental institutions. The problem is in a Nation of 350 ish million people even a few % is a large number and that makes some squeamish about locking away/warehousing 3%-5% of the population. Frankly I’d suggest it would be closer to 3% once implemented due to deterrence impact of severely strict sentencing and commitment proceedings.
And it would dip even lower because the incarceration would reduce the amount of cultural impact the recidivists have on their ‘hoods.
While you are correct that we have many who should be institutionalized, current law makes forced commitment very difficult unless they are shown to be a danger to themselves or others. Without that institutionalization is voluntary. Thus the current situation is that we can only shut the barn door after the horse has stomped someone to death.
I believe that the only way forward towards sanity (heh) in this area is a much much broader definition of danger to others. I understand that the freedom of the individual is the trump card in our constitutional system but just as ants are individually relatively harmless, en masse they are horribly destructive.
Easy. People who act/behave uncivil or abnormal get put into a temporary hold/psych evaluation. If the Psychologist says they ain’t dangerous to themselves or others they go jail with their officially designated ‘not crazy’ stamp prominent in any subsequent cases. ‘sorry, no claiming mental incompetence/Cray Cray in a subsequent case once released back into the public.
For existing prison population it should be much easier (relative to general public) to move them from incarceration in a prison to incarceration in a mental facility…precisely b/c their ‘freedom’ isn’t in any peril they’re already locked up. Moving them to mental institutions to get treatment seems like something even wokiesta/leftists would support… unless they wish to argue that Prison System has no duty to evaluate and provide appropriate medical care on an individual basis to prisoners.
I do agree we need a more common sense standard of ‘danger to self or others’. One threshold should be repeated violent and/or stalking, harassing, intimidating, menacing actions. Sooner or later such behavior will result in great bodily harm/death of themselves or another person. Personally I’d put everyone who repeatedly gets in another person’s personal space to scream or routinely makes a big scene/crash out into a mental health evaluation. I suspect a 96 hour psych hold wearing a nice paper outfit in a padded cell interacting with Psychologist and mental health facility staff would either cure their behavior or if they continue to crash out demonstrate their inability to function in a civil society.
Here’s the ruling Supreme Court decision.
O’Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975).
” In that decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous person who is capable of surviving safely in freedom, either alone or with help from family or friends.
One of the key passages states, in substance, that:
A finding of mental illness alone cannot justify involuntary confinement.
The Court emphasized that a person who is “dangerous to no one” cannot simply be locked away indefinitely in a mental institution.
A related later case is Addington v. Texas, which established the “clear and convincing evidence” standard for involuntary commitment proceedings. But the “danger to self or others” principle is most strongly associated with O’Connor v. Donaldson.”
yeah..”non dangerous” so what about all these who are proven to be a danger then being released …..thats why judges must be held accountable
Danger should include all forms of violence AND things like theft and vandalism.
If they cannot help but steal, then they are a danger to my well-being because they will violate my property rights.
“confine a non-dangerous person who is CAPABLE OF SURVIVING safely in freedom, either alone or with help from family or friends.”- We committed my wife’s aunt- very, very difficult but signed off that we would not take care of her. (She was nuts and conniving). This can be done, and should be made easier.
until the majority of these woke judges ( see boston shooting for clearer picture of this ) are held accountable
the carnage onto america will continue
we fear(ed) the blmplo armies only b/c the laws say we must back down..even with stand your ground laws ..the innocent defenders are put through a hell the real criminals never face
[Insert shocked face here]
Well, DUH! More money down the “expert” sewer to create a report making a conclusion obvious to all—without the study.
Thugs gonna be thugs (said in a Wakandan accent).
“Hundreds of NC Criminals Released During Covid Later Reoffended.”
A review of state data showed a 48% recidivism rate for the 3,500 released inmates, with over 600 charged with serious crimes, including numerous sex offenses and 18 homicides.
The leader of NC’s NAACP at the time was the Rev. William Barber, the worst of the worst race baiter there is.
Completely and utterly predictable
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