‘Aid To The People’: Coast Groups Partner in Drive to Battle Latinx Food Insecurity
The Mississippi Gulf Coast, with an economy relying heavily on the service industry, has an immense number of low-wage jobs between its casinos, hotels and
The Mississippi Gulf Coast, with an economy relying heavily on the service industry, has an immense number of low-wage jobs between its casinos, hotels and
A lawsuit accuses MDOC and Mississippi’s two largest prisons of “taking inadequate steps to prevent the infection and mitigate an outbreak of COVID-19.”
Carmen Quintero, 21, and her 2-year-old son Miguel (not their real names), left Ocotepeque, Honduras, to begin a dangerous journey through Guatemala and Mexico that
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves rejecting calls from a bipartisan coalition of criminal-justice reform organizations to reduce the State’s prison population. If he does not, the New York-based FWD.us warned in a late April report, nearly every prisoner in State custody could have the virus by May’s end, and around 200 could die.
A North Mississippi psychiatrist alleges that a hospital fired her after she refused to admit more elderly patients into a unit with a woman she suspected had COVID-19.
The Mississippi Legislature reconvened today amid a fight over who should decide how to spend $1.25 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds—the governor, with advice
The Mississippi Supreme Court should immediately impose a moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic “to prevent the expected and unprecedented rise in Mississippians being made homeless from evictions,” the Mississippi Center for Justice said in an emergency court filing.
On the day Mississippi recorded its second-biggest jump in COVID-19 cases so far, Gov. Tate Reeves announced plans to relax measures meant to curb the
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch plans to sue China, accusing the country of “malicious and dangerous acts that caused deaths, health injuries and serious economic loss from the COVID-19 crisis.”
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