Myrlie Evers remembered Congressman John Lewis as a fearless civil rights leader who “stood for everything that is good, everything that is strong and everything that is merciful.”
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Former Army National Guard officer Edward Stafford Knight went away for life in prison in August 2001.
His widow and others believe it turned into a death sentence.
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Without offering any meaningful explanation, Gov. Tate Reeves recently vetoed thoughtful, bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation that would have gone a long way toward addressing Mississippi’s current prison crisis.
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University of Mississippi student Johnny Douglas of Oxford was worried that his therapy for depression and anxiety might stop in its tracks when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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Myrlie Evers began to weep when she heard the Mississippi Legislature vote to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.
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The tipping point to a decades-long debate at Ole Miss came 900 miles from the north with the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a police officer.
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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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Carl Boatner suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary artery disease, two liver diseases, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, major depressive disorder, and anxiety disorder.
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In March, Millsaps College was one of over 1,100 colleges in the nation that was forced to close its doors due to the surge in the coronavirus pandemic and transition from in-person classes to online-only instruction. As a result, students’ lives were turned upside down and they were faced with the harsh reality of our new normal.
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The Mississippi Department of Mental Health confirmed Friday that 56 patients and an unknown number of staff at four of its 12 facilities have confirmed COVD-19 infections—a much higher number than reported previously, according to figures from the agency.
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COVID-19 may have claimed the life of an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued a statement Monday evening about the inmate, who died Saturday. His test for the novel coronavirus came back positive after his death.
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State cuts to the health care system over the past decade are costing lives now in the battle against a coronavirus pandemic, says the former chancellor over the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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