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Michelle Liu is a 2018 corps member for Report for America, a national service program that places talented journalists in local newsrooms. She has covered criminal justice issues across the state since joining our team June 2018. Her work has appeared in the New Haven Independent.
One year after a promise of federal involvement and transparency, there are no further explanations on the causes of 16 deaths at Mississippi prisons in August 2018 and families and advocates continue to demand answers
Attorney for Mississippi argues that the U.S. Constitution allows permanent disenfranchisement for felons and that plaintiffs lack “present-day proof of any unconstitutional effects of the law.” Mississippi, Kentucky and Iowa are the only states to impose a lifetime ban for people convicted of disenfranchising crimes.
Republican Andy Gipson and his Democratic challenger Rickey Cole are campaigning to head the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, the agency that promotes and regulates Mississippi’s $7.72 billion agriculture industry.
Corrections agency employees took nearly 90 minutes to figure out who was missing, during which they repeatedly misidentified the escapee, according to an incident report. The report details a lack of communication between employees, who failed to correctly identify the missing person during recounts.
The allegations were published in a national criminal justice publication. Owens said that he strongly disagreed with “the content and the accuracy” of the article.
Man was jailed in Kemper Neshoba Regional Correctional Facility for failure to pay fines
Mississippi has the second highest rate of jail admissions per capita in the country, according to a report released last month by the Prison Policy Initiative
Settlement agreement comes after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a family who say that in 2017 the family was stopped and detained for four hours.
Hurst’s record on prosecuting employers found guilty of violating immigration laws sheds light on how his office might handle the cases of employers ensnared in last week’s massive raids
“The rash was so bad that I’d have claw marks from scratching, and often open wounds,” the Mississippi inmate told state prison officials in a formal complaint
El fiscal de Estados Unidos Mike Hurst dijo que ICE no contactó a nadie a fuera de las autoridades policiacas antes de la redada “….a causa de la naturaleza de la ejecución de órdenes judiciales federales de registro.” Mientras tanto, los miembros de familia y amistades esperan y anhelan que se liberen a más personas.
U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst said ICE did not contact anyone outside of law enforcement ahead of the raid “…because of the nature of executing federal criminal search warrants.” Meanwhile, family members and friends wait and hope more released.
Según reportajes de las noticias, agentes del Departamento de las Investigaciones de la Seguridad Nacional, estuvieron descubritos en un número de fábricas de pollo en varias partes del estado.
Immigration attorney: “Kids calling us on the first day of school, wondering if their parents were caught up in the raids.”
Black mold, mildew, exposed wiring, raw sewage as well as inoperable showers and ice machines were also among the deficiencies health inspectors found during an annual review of the state’s oldest prison