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Inability to pay a $100,000 bail kept a Mississippi man in jail for three years. After taking a plea deal, a mother worries her son won’t survive in prison 

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Bennie Thompson committee started investigation leading to Trump charges

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Ex-MDOC officer admits to assaulting inmate

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Mississippi to pay more than $400K in attorneys’ fees over unconstitutional sodomy law

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Their families said they needed treatment. Mississippi officials threw them in jail without charges.

Avatar photo by Isabelle Taft, Mollie Simon, ProPublica and Agnel Philip, ProPublica July 27, 2023July 27, 2023
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Mississippi remains an outlier in jailing people with serious mental illness without charges

Avatar photo by Isabelle Taft, Mollie Simon, ProPublica and Agnel Philip, ProPublica July 27, 2023July 26, 2023
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Judge halts new law that he says will deter voting by disabled

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AG Lynn Fitch offers no new details on Chris McDaniel campaign finance complaints 

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These states are using fetal personhood to put women behind bars

by Cary Aspinwall, The Marshall Project July 25, 2023July 25, 2023
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National monument will honor Emmett Till and his mother in Mississippi and Chicago

Avatar photo by Jerry Mitchell July 24, 2023July 25, 2023
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A year after air conditioning came to Parchman, most of Mississippi’s prisons are still without relief from the heat

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One son killed, the other imprisoned for manslaughter, but was the real villain in the Columbia family’s tragedy a faulty Remington rifle trigger?

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Where the sheriff is king, these women say he coerced them into sex

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U.S. Supreme Court ends efforts to right wrongs of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution

Avatar photo by Bobby Harrison July 16, 2023July 18, 2023
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Federal judge hears residents’ input on JXN Water’s work thus far

Avatar photo by Alex Rozier July 14, 2023July 14, 2023

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