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Cecil Hannibal | WAPT | July 31, 2021

Bobby Harrison|Mississippi Today|July 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. - The joint committee tasked with developing a plan to redraw the four U.S. House seats and the 174 state legislative seats have scheduled nine public hearings across the state to garner public input.

Immigration detention was cruel, abusive, and degrading before the pandemic hit — but as in so many other places, COVID-19 made the system's brutality impossible to ignore.

Keisha Rowe | Clarion Ledger | May 18, 2021 NATCHEZ, Miss. - A civil rights and liberties complaint has been filed against the Adams County Detention Center in Natchez after several immigrant rights groups claimed the facility is endangering the lives of detainees.

Ashton Pittman |Mississippi Free Press| May 17, 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear a Mississippi case challenging Roe v. Wade in defense of the state’s 15-week abortion, “The Gestational Age Act.”

Ashton Pittman |Jackson Free Press| April 28, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. — B.J. splashed toilet water in his eyes. The immigrant man was doing so, he later told attorneys in a statement last fall, because he was trying to wash his eyes after officers at the Adams County Detention Center sprayed him...

Troy Johnson |WAPT| April 21, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. —The ACLU of Mississippi is reacting to former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty on all charges in the murder trial of George Floyd.

Emily Wagster Pettus |AP News| April 16, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will join a growing number of states and the federal government in banning the use of restraints on women giving birth in a jail or prison.

Courtney Ann Jackson |WLBT| April 12, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Minnesota case of a man shot and killed by police comes just days after video was released of an Army Lieutenant in Virginia being stopped by police and pepper sprayed, and it adds fuel to the fire of increased scrutiny on...