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Pauline Rogers, who runs the RECH Foundation, a nonprofit that provides post-incarceration support, says the marijuana possession pardon that President Joe Biden announced on Oct. 6, 2022, was “long overdue.”
Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable Co-convener and State Lead Cassandra Welchlin said increasing child-support debt for those in prison harms relationships.
Leaders of three re-entry organizations—Mississippi Center for Re-entry, RECH Foundation and New Way Mississippi—gathered for a press conference inside the Mississippi State Capitol on Feb. 24, 2022, to advocate for the passage of various post-incarceration reform bills.
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.
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