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Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for Ruling That Could Gut Election Clout Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that victory may be in jeopardy.

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FBI investigating Mississippi Prison Death Involving Guards Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

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Mississippi Lawmakers Push Prison Reform After Dozens of Deaths Exposed A reform bill that would set up an oversight committee to review each prison death comes after a joint news investigation by several local outlets.

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How Trump’s Insurrection Act Threat Differs From JFK’s Use in Miss. The military has been used domestically about 30 times since 1807, mostly to enforce civil rights and quell riots. Can they be used to quash political protests?

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We Investigated Killings Inside Mississippi Prisons. Here’s What We Found. Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

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No One Knows How Many People Die in Mississippi’s Jails. Here’s Why. From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths.

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Dozens Killed. Few Brought to Justice. This is Life Inside Mississippi’s Prisons. Inside Mississippi prisons, murder is never far away. Reporters uncover why violence has become routine and killings go unchecked.

Inside Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons: 42 killings, few answers — read the new investigative series
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Dozens of Killings Inside Mississippi Prisons Rarely Get Justice At least 42 incarcerated people have been killed in the last decade. Just six people have been convicted in their deaths.

Part 2 posted today in our investigation into Mississippi Prison murders and killings
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Mississippi Prison Killing Leaves Mother With No Answers After 5 Years After reports of cell keys being shared and the lights turned off, Denorris Howell was killed in his dark Parchman prison cell.

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Former Irish Republican Army Soldier Self-Deports, Says He’d Die in an ICE Holding Cell The Clinton administration once used Matthew Morrison’s U.S. immigration case to help solidify peace in Northern Ireland.

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How Trump Is Flouting Government Rules on Pardons to Help Allies Many of the president’s recent pardons violate Justice Department policies designed to ensure fairness and public safety.

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Why This Guatemalan Family Is Hiding From ICE This Summer in St. Louis, Missouri They say returning to Guatemala isn’t an option — even if they are forced to.

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Indicted Mississippi Prosecutor’s Latest Campaign Report Rife With Errors Amid federal corruption charges, the campaign finance report from Jody Owens features bad math, with thousands of dollars unaccounted for.

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Why This Conservative Town Is Fighting a New Immigration Prison Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Rural Missouri Jails Want ICE Contracts. An Immigrant’s Death Shows the Risks. As cash-strapped jails rush in for ICE contracts, one man’s death shows the complexity and risk of detaining immigrants.

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Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk? The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The federal agency enforcing it is in disarray.

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Indicted Mississippi DA flouts campaign finance disclosure laws While he fights federal bribery charges, Jody Owens faces sanctions for not disclosing campaign funds and spending. Weak laws confuse enforcement.

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St. Louis’ Endless Struggle With Jail Reform A facility built for progress reflects ‘decades of neglect’ and the city’s deepest struggles, from mental illness to systemic dysfunction.

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Why No One in Ohio Prisons Has Been Released Early Under Reform Law Intended to curb prison violence with promises of early release, the law is turning out as unbalanced as critics feared, with sentences extended at every turn.

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Woman’s Case Spotlights Missouri’s Resistance to Innocence Claims Even after a judge declared her innocent and ordered her freed, the Missouri attorney general tried to send her back.

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What Will Happen to the Hinds County Jail Once Under Court Control? When death and violence plagued the jail, the federal courts stepped in. We talked with an expert about what to expect from a receivership.

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Why Have Mississippi No-Knock Raids Been Approved Without Good Reason? Some local courts have backed off approving no-knocks, but there are still no statewide limits on these dangerous types of raids.

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Trump Is Backing Away From Police Reform. Here’s What That Means for 12 Places. The administration appears set to end federal oversight of police, including agencies that have committed systemic civil rights violations.

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1/ ☄️ Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is gracing our skies, and we’d like to share some amazing images from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile!

This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪

The Dangerous Yet Desirable Work of Being an Incarcerated Firefighter in California More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

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Some of Our Best Work for 2024 Online, in print, and on radio and TV, we delved into prison health care, political views of people behind bars, arrests of women who miscarry and more.

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The Marshall Project — Jackson Exposing criminal justice abuses in Hinds County and across Mississippi by investigating policing, courts, prisons and jails.

And check out the rest of our criminal justice coverage in Mississippi at www.themarshallproject.org/jackson

Mississippi DA Sent Mothers to Prison for 20 Years and Didn’t Know It A prosecutor had been threatening mothers who used drugs while pregnant with long sentences — until Brandy Moore fought the case against her.

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