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In the last three years (since May 8, 2014), has a Madison County Sheriff's Deputy:

The Smart Justice Campaign't 50-state plan will be a driving force in ending mass incarceration in the U.S.

Over the past 50 years, our schools have become sites of increased criminalization of young people—a disturbing fact that is even truer for poor Black and Latino communities. Today, police officers assigned to patrol schools can legally use physical force on students, arrest and handcuff them, and bring the full weight of the criminal justice system to bear on kids who are simply misbehaving. The primary role of police in schools is to enforce criminal laws, and virtually every violation of a school rule can be considered a criminal act if viewed through this police-first lens.

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Below is ACLU of Mississippi Executive Director Jennifer Riley Collins' response to the Governor's State of the State Address - January 17, 2017:

With Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, the private prison industry will have a direct line to President Trump.

Congress has immense power to help reform police practices nationwide. There is no time to waste.

I knew Philando Castile, and he was a beautiful human being who was stolen from us by a policeman’s bullets.