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‘I can’t let him out on society,’ sheriff says
‘I can’t let him out on society,’ sheriff says

Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson feels like he is on the front lines of the issues that face Mississippi corrections personnel in handling the mentally ill in the state.

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Holmes County was ‘already off the cliff with no safety net. Then COVID came.’
Holmes County was ‘already off the cliff with no safety net. Then COVID came.’

TCHULA — This small town sits an hour from the suburbs of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson, but it rests a world away.

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