Matthew Wilburn told Mitzi Magleby that he was terminally ill in September 2022. She filed for his compassionate release soon after on Sept. 29, 2022, but he remained in prison until March 2023.
Calandra Davis honors Dr. Mutulu Shakur—Black Liberation Army member whom the U.S. government captured and held as a POW for over 36 years.
Hinds County leaders said many applicants are showing up with marijuana in their system when they apply for jobs, disqualifying them from employment.
At the Madison/Rankin County Circuit Courthouse in Canton on March 28, 2022, two judges sentenced three people to a collective 216 years for drug offenses.
Larry Hollins said that having his brother, Gregory Hollins, sentenced to 60 years in prison under Mississippi habitual-sentencing laws without the possibility of parole is like throwing him away.
Thirty years ago, I began to consider that the legalization of the cocaine business would be the best strategy to reduce bloodshed in my country. I have not changed my mind, but I think people should learn to distinguish between a war on drugs and a war on the mafia because the latter does not end with legalization alone.
Parts of Mississippi’s capital city is seeing a “saturation” of additional police presence that Gov. Tate Reeves promises will counter a spike in crime and violence that has worsened since the pandemic began. But violence experts warn that a swelling police presence may not be effective, and it actually harm communities.
Mauricio J. Quijano unpacks causes and effects of undocumented migration into the United States from crime, to corruption, to poverty in counties the people fleeing leave behind.
A Lafayette County drug unit has lost at least $34,000 that its agents seized during busts and arrests targeting local residents and University of Mississippi students, including for crimes involving marijuana. Government documents show that local officials have known since at least 2016 that the funds were missing—a fact that remained hidden from the public until now. Federal investigators suspect the funds may have been stolen.
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