Anthony Shelvy, a social worker at Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center in Fayette, Miss., said Jefferson County has few resources to help domestic-violence victims and that the county’s crime-victim agency, which primarily focuses on domestic violence, only employs two people for the entire 527-square-mile area.
Madison Hahamy
Madison Hahamy is a student at Yale University and freelance journalist who has written for the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, the New Haven Independent, and the Columbia Journalism Review, amongst other publications.