Rankin County residents spoke in private to Justice Department officials after county attorneys showed up at listening session.

Steph Quinn
Quinn is a Roy Howard Fellow at Mississippi Today focusing on criminal justice. In May 2024, she graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She reported on juvenile justice for Capital News Service and was chosen as a student leader on two projects at UMD’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, including a partnership with The Associated Press on “Lethal Restraint.” Quinn also reported on Minnesota's fragmented system of oversight of animal rescue organization as an intern at The Minnesota Star Tribune.
With a Ph.D. in history, she brings to her reporting a decade of experience researching how migrant laborers and women shaped urban life in Namibia during apartheid. After earning her doctorate from Stanford University in 2019, Quinn held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of the Free State in South Africa, where she lived for more than three years.