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  • Editor's Blog

    If you watch only one online video today, make sure it’s this one

    John Oliver takes on America's broken prison system, with one particularly egregious example from right here in Mississippi.

    By Jake McGraw
    July 24, 2014
  • Analysis

    ‘The Rule of Law’: An immigration attorney?s response to Gov. Bryant?s comments on unaccompanied minors

    Governor Bryant?s letter to President Obama demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of U.S. immigration and constitutional law.

    By
    July 21, 2014
  • Commentary

    Mississippi has changed since Freedom Summer. The struggle for justice and equality has not.

    Mississippi's progress was on full display at Mt. Zion church in Neshoba County last Sunday. So was its unfinished business.

    By Jake McGraw
    June 19, 2014
  • Justice

    Reducing racial disparities in our prisons: What can Mississippi learn from other states?

    The bipartisan sentencing reform bill moving through the Legislature does not address racial disparities. That's a serious omission.

    By Jennifer Kirby-McLemore
    February 13, 2014
  • Analysis

    Racial disparities in incarceration are getting worse. It’s time Mississippi took notice.

    African Americans account for 61 percent of Mississippi's prisoners, but only 37 percent of its population. Mississippi should join a national movement to reexamine the racial impact of its sentencing laws.

    By Jennifer Kirby-McLemore
    September 27, 2013

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