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Prison Crisis Endangers the Public, Prison Guards, and Incarcerated Mississippians
Jackson, MS — The ACLU of Mississippi today released a report with recommendations that could lead to a 50 percent reduction in Mississippi’s prison population.
Today, the ACLU of Mississippi, in a letter nationally coordinated by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, demanded that 16 jurisdictions in Mississippi repeal their bans on panhandling. Since the 2015 Supreme Court decision in Reed v.
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Center for Reproductive Rights, ACLU, American Immigration Council, Women’s Refugee Commission and Others Urge Administration to Reinstitute a Presumption That Pregnant Individuals Should Be Released From Detention