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Durham Police would rather give the two cashiers charged in a compliance check the benefit of the doubt rather than go through the court process.

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Durham Community Groups to Host Town Hall on Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Two Durham community groups will host a virtual town hall this week to discuss strategies to  eliminate public school policies and practices that take Black and Brown students out of their classrooms and push them into jail cells. The topic, “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” will be the centerpiece of a discussion Wednesday moderated by members of the Youth Justice Project and the People's Alliance. The town hall hosts define the school-to-prison pipeline as a “system of policie...

Updated December 19, 2020 8:56 a.m. EST By Sarah Krueger, WRAL Durham reporter Hillsborough, N.C. — Two Durham criminal defense attorneys who have tried federal drug cases before say the 21 people charged in connection with a drug trafficking ring at area universities are likely to serve some prison time. The length of the investigation and the cooperation between federal and local authorities tells Daniel Meier that prosecutors have their evidence buttoned up. "They’ve already secured guilty pleas. They’ve already got cooperating witnesses. They’ve been working on this a long tim...

Defense attorneys: Jail time likely for those charged in university drug ring Two Durham criminal defense attorneys who have tried federal drug cases before say the 21 people charged in connection with a drug trafficking ring at area universities are likely to serve some prison time.