Ballot Initiative, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Survive Deadline; DEI, Abortion Bills Die
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to ban machine-gun converters, expand Medicaid, close most of the state penitentiary and outlaw sexual extortion.
Beverly Pool worries about her brother, Marvin Pernell, who was in the Oktibbeha County jail in Starkville, Miss., from July 2021 until January 2023 and is now at the Mississippi State Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric hospital in Whitfield, Miss. Now 48, Pernell is a military veteran who served in the U.S. Marines from 1994 to 1998.
A former inmate says that days before inmates Timothy Hudspeth and James Talley died in Parchman, Miss., in 2020, gang members beat them for hours.
Two Mississippi Department of Corrections workers in 2019 allegedly beat an inmate at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl. They are now facing charges in federal court.
The investigative report released last week starts the 49-day clock until June 2022, when Attorney General Merrick B. Garland can legally file a case against Mississippi in federal court in line with the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act.
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division released a 60-page report on April 20, 2022, after two years of investigating the operations of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
ACLU-MS Deputy Director Alicia N. Netterville told the Mississippi Free Press on March 9 that the first version of the 2021 Mississippi House Bill 747 allows convict-leasing, which is akin to slavery. The organization helped guide the language for the final version of the bill that became law.
The “Breaking Bread” Itta Bena project encourages unity and communication between Mississippi Valley State University and the Itta Bena community.
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