MDOC makes another unexplained leadership shift
Latoya Anderson, superintendent of the newly renamed women’s prison at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, was replaced without explanation.

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On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, because she was “tired of giving in.”

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