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“It’s almost unbearable when you’re awake,” Olander Dedeaux, who has been in solitary since December, told his advocate.
He shared similar issues & experiences of men who were in solitary 20 years earlier.
Story with @dajaehenry & @burning_gr4nt:
MDOC for decades has regularly held incarcerated people in solitary confinement for weeks, months and, in some cases, years at a time. ow.ly/uZoR50Z8BmH
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The family of Kohen Wiley gathered with state officials Thursday to view unredacted footage of the confrontation, two days after leaked clips were published by a local news outlet and widely circulated on social media. ow.ly/tnV35100jnE
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Mississippi lawmakers are considering legislation to ban sales of synthetic kratom products after the deaths of two University of Mississippi students. ow.ly/HnxJ51009Vh
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Legal groups are suing Lexington and its police department for free speech violations days after the city settled with the U.S. Department of Justice over its policing practices.
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People will return to Leland Friday for homecoming festivities a year after a mass shooting at a block party killed 8 & injured 16.
Records & statements from officials give little info about progress in the investigation, incl. how none have been indicted for capital murder.
Families and the community are still wondering why the tragedy happened and lacking the closure that only trials and convictions can begin to provide, says Leland Mayor John Lee.
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The body-camera and surveillance footage provides the first glimpse of a confrontation in a Walmart parking lot that left 1-year-old Kohen Wiley dead.
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The receiver who oversees the troubled Hinds County jail says county officials are giving him too little information and too little money. An attorney for the county says the receiver should be clearer in communication about spending.ow.ly/z47550ZZJxR
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The Senatobia police officer who fatally shot 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has been cleared by Mississippi’s Attorney General, who says she found the shooting to be justified.
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Sean Tindell will step down next month after serving six years as Mississippi’s public safety commissioner and will be replaced by Capitol Police Chief Bo Luckey, Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Friday. ow.ly/7AmW50ZYx9N
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials for murder in Mississippi became a landmark case for racial bias in jury selection, has died, according to the Montgomery County coroner.
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A Mississippi judge Wednesday threw out the murder indictment against Tameshia Shelton, putting an end to the case that has haunted the mother of four for nearly two decades. ow.ly/mJBk50ZVCB8
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Store clerk Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and Islam Yahya Mosleh, 18, each face federal charges of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.
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Hinds County may soon end its six-year arrangement providing a temporary morgue space to handle a backlog of unclaimed bodies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in homicides. ow.ly/5ns950ZU54F
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After a hung jury, the attorney general’s office won’t retry the case against the former officer who fired the fatal shot. ow.ly/qYoP50ZSG7u
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Digital forensic experts hired by Nolan Wells’ family examined his phone, including images, videos and social media apps to create a timeline providing more information about what led to his death on Horn Island.
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Two Capitol Police officers who shot a 25-year-old Jackson man said in recorded statements played Thursday for a jury that they had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. ow.ly/Jtxs50ZRbar
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On this day in 1955, an all-white, all-male jury in the Mississippi Delta acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant of murdering Emmett Till.
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The parents of Nolan Xavier Wells say they will continue to push for answers about his death, after a Jackson County grand jury concluded that he likely drowned and no one would face criminal charges. ow.ly/EwMF50ZQjeb
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BREAKING: A Jackson County grand jury has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the death of Nolan Xavier Wells. ow.ly/5jmb50ZPZn6
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Detainees have complained about crowding, measly food, a lack of medical care and lingering fumes. ow.ly/P0ab50ZPPUI
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The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has completed its review of the Senatobia Police Department’s fatal shooting of a Black toddler and sent its findings to Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the department’s interim police chief said this week. ow.ly/uvV550ZPlsZ
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