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Columnist Leo Carney highlights how a pattern of police shootings on the Gulf Coast “negatively affects their families and the entire community as a whole.”
A detainee who had been awaiting trial for 18 months died in the Hinds County Detention Center, officials revealed on Monday, Feb. 6.
Rashad Shabazz explores the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.
Anthony Shelvy, a social worker at Jefferson Comprehensive Health Center in Fayette, Miss., said Jefferson County has few resources to help domestic-violence victims and that the county’s crime-victim agency, which primarily focuses on domestic violence, only employs two people for the entire 527-square-mile area.
Officials found Seth Coulter Odom’s body dismembered inside a large plastic tool box on the side of a rural road Saturday morning.
An attorney for D’Monterrio Gibson, the FedEx driver who narrowly escaped a shooting on his route in Brookhaven, Miss., earlier this year, has alleged that the Brookhaven Police Department delayed the release of critical documents allowing for the upgraded charges against two Brookhaven men and failed to properly investigate the crime.
Inmate Glen Conley told a circuit-court judge that he should qualify for parole under a new Mississippi law that passed since his conviction for capital murder in 1998.
Disability Rights Mississippi agreed that the court could terminate the consent decree in the running of the Henley-Young-Patton Juvenile Detention Center in Hinds County after 10 years.
Gulfport Police Department transferred the case involving the officer who shot Jaheim McMillan on Oct. 6, 2022, of an officer-involved shooting on Oct. 6, 2022, to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
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