Christina Dent writes about a change of heart she had that may help in rethinking Mississippi’s criminal-justice approach to drugs and addiction.
Allowing House Bill 1020 to stand “would constitute a tremendous transfer of power from the voters of Mississippi, who have for over 100 years elected our circuit judges, to the Legislature,” attorney Cliff Johnson told eight members of the Mississippi Supreme Court during hearings Thursday.
Matthew Wilburn told Mitzi Magleby that he was terminally ill in September 2022. She filed for his compassionate release soon after on Sept. 29, 2022, but he remained in prison until March 2023.
The Mississippi Parole Board can deny parole to people in prison if its members consider a judge’s sentence too low, Meridian-native Julia Monteele Norman told the Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee during her confirmation hearing on Feb. 13.
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.
Glen Conley had just parked his Nissan vehicle outside his workplace, Supreme Healthcare Corporation, in Houston, Texas, in August 1997, when two men followed him
Federal Judge Carlton Reeves is placing control of the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond under a yet-to-be-determined receiver to oversee the beleaguered and dangerous facility. Reeves said he had considered detaining county officials due to the dangerous conditions at the jail—and that a new jail would not solve deep-seated problems with management and staffing.
Disability Rights Mississippi, a nonprofit that advocates for the rights of those with disabilities throughout the state, has investigated complaints regarding the amount of time those on bond, like Brad Sellers, have waited for a forensic bed to open at Mississippi State Hospital.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, who represents Mississippi’s Second District, wrote to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Tae D. Johnson, asking him to consider releasing 28-year-old Lladi Ambrocio-Garcia from detention.
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