ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When sheriff’s department staff in Mississippi’s Benton County took Jimmy Sons into custody several years ago, they followed their standard protocol for people charged with a crime: They took his mug shot, […]
Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today; Agnel Philip, ProPublica; and Mollie Simon, ProPublica
Isabelle Taft is a reporter at Mississippi Today. Agnel Philip is a data reporter at ProPublica. Mollie Simon is a research reporter at ProPublica.