Posts tagged Mississippi Center for Justice
Patients Go To St. Dominic. Private Debt Collectors Go After Them.
Patients Go To St. Dominic. Private Debt Collectors Go After Them.

They had a house picked out, Cooper said, when she got a phone call about their loan.

“It broke my heart,” Cooper recalled. “Immediately my stomach fell to my feet. I started crying.”

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Mississippi Hospitals Are Suing Patients Over Medical Debt. Here's How To Fix That.
Mississippi Hospitals Are Suing Patients Over Medical Debt. Here's How To Fix That.

An investigation by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting found the billing and collections practices of St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson had devastating impacts on patients.

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Mississippi News, News, Price for Healthcare, Public HealthKatherine MitchellSt Dominic, The Painful Price for Healthcare, Debt collection, medical debt, low-wage industries, Jackson Mississippi, nonprofit hospital, Advanced Recovery Systems, lawsuit, justice court, Mississippi Center for Justice, debt collection, sue, medicaid expansion
How We Did It
How We Did It

This week, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting published a project looking into nonprofit hospitals and medical debt lawsuits.

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Trump’s Postal Service forbids aiding mail-in voters. Absentee voting just became more of a nightmare in Mississippi.
Trump’s Postal Service forbids aiding mail-in voters. Absentee voting just became more of a nightmare in Mississippi.

In yet another blow by the Trump administration against mail-in voting, the U.S. Postal Service is forbidding postmasters from witnessing absentee ballots as they have done in the past.

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COVID-19 in crowded Mississippi prisons ‘a disaster waiting to happen’
COVID-19 in crowded Mississippi prisons ‘a disaster waiting to happen’

Mississippi corrections officials are putting the lives of approximately 6,000 inmates housed at the state’s two largest prisons at risk by failing to implement adequate safety precautions to protect them from the deadly COVID-19 virus, a federal lawsuit alleges.

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