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Media Advisory: Advocates of Formerly Incarcerated Mississippians to Hold News Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JACKSON, Miss. – Advocacy organizations, including Mississippi Center for Re-entry, New Way Mississippi, Inc., HOPE Credit Union Enterprise Corporation Policy Institute, RECH Foundation, and American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, will hold a news conference....

ACLU-MS Calls On JPD to End Unconstitutional Checkpoints

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JACKSON, Miss. – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi sent a letter to Jackson Police Chief James Davis, City of Jackson Attorney Catoria Martin, and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba calling on the police department to end its Ticket, Arrest, Tow (TAT)...