Pauline Rogers and her husband, Fred Rogers, founded the Rech Foundation together, where they offer transitional housing and reintegration services to those formerly incarcerated.
Found dead on the side of a road in South Jackson, Tramaine Green was one of 128 homicides in Jackson in 2020. In her overview introducing the Hinds County chapter of our “(In)Equity and Resilience: Black Women Women and Systemic Barriers” collaboration with the Jackson Advocate, reporter Aliyah Veal tells one family’s story of navigating COVID-19, gun violence and being ignored by police through the pandemic—and the pandemic-magnified causes of crime and inequities that have long affected their path to success.
Hinds County has until the middle of this month to convince a federal judge to not hold it in civil contempt and take over the running of the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond.
“None of us is as bad as the worst decision we’ve made. And none of us can navigate this life we’ve been blessed with on our own—however that life looks and wherever it might take us,” Terun Moore writes.
Jefferson County isn’t just a moderately successful rural example of vaccination outreach—it is the most vaccinated county in all of Mississippi, approaching full vaccination for three out of every four adult residents.
After applying for 43 vacancies in northern Mississippi and being denied every one of them after his time in prison, former Columbus, Miss., Councilman Kamal Karriem is now advocating for the business community to open its doors to people like him as a measure against recidivism.
After several years of reading the work of writers at Parchman—as well as helping to workshop writing—W. Ralph Eubanks has come to see prison writing as a unique body of literature that offers a commentary on the conditions that exist broadly in American society, specifically in Mississippi and the American South.
Disability Rights Mississippi—a private, nonprofit, federally mandated protection and advocacy organization, just released a report, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment in Mississippi Prisons: A Tale of Abuse, Discrimination and Undue Death Sentences,” to describe realities for people with disabilities on the inside. Disability Rights Mississippi is accusing the Mississippi Department of Corrections of “subjecting offenders to cruel and unusual punishments” such as the denial of medical care and the refusal to make required accommodations for inmates with disabilities.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Die Jim Crow Records Executive Director Fury Young got a call from BL Shirelle, the label’s deputy
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