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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty-five inmates at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, a city in Rankin County, will be able to work and earn at least the minimum wage starting July 1, 2022, if Gov. Tate Reeves signs Senate Bill 2437.
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