‘Law And Order Will Win’: Governor Announces Jackson Crime Operation, Mayor On Board
Jackson will see a “surge in state, local and federal law-enforcement resources” through “Operation Unified,” Gov. Reeves announced.
Jackson will see a “surge in state, local and federal law-enforcement resources” through “Operation Unified,” Gov. Reeves announced.
Poor defendants in Mississippi are routinely jailed for months, and sometimes even years, without being appointed an attorney due to the state’s notoriously dysfunctional public defender system. The Mississippi Supreme Court now says this practice must end.
U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Carlton Reeves wrote his second contempt order against Hinds County leadership on the A-Pod of the 596-bed facility, which opened in 1994.
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