Ballot Initiative, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Survive Deadline; DEI, Abortion Bills Die
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Proposals targeting transgender people and reviving a ballot initiative process are among the bills that survived a deadline.
Mississippi lawmakers advanced bills to ban machine-gun converters, expand Medicaid, close most of the state penitentiary and outlaw sexual extortion.
Mississippi inmates were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, including one who contracted cancer, a lawsuit says.
Jackson will see a “surge in state, local and federal law-enforcement resources” through “Operation Unified,” Gov. Reeves announced.
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.
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