mississippi
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A Mississippi Man Is Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison. His Crime? Having a Cell Phone in Jail
If you needed any more evidence that black people are more harshly punished by the legal system than their white counterparts, look no further than the case of a 39-year-old father of three, Willie Nash. According to NBC News, Nash was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison. He didn’t hurt anyone, sell drugs, or…
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Jay-Z, Roc Nation File Federal Lawsuit Against Mississippi Prison Officials for Violent Conditions, 'Failure to Meet Basic Human Rights'
I’ve never spent a day of my life in prison, but after a recent rash of stabbings and violent attacks led to the deaths of five inmates housed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, I’m pretty sure there’s a blatant disregard for the safety of those being kept behind bars. Evidently, Jay-Z feels the same way,…
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Yo Gotti and Roc Nation’s Threats to Sue Mississippi Over ‘Inhumane’ Prison System Already Yielding Fast Results
If you listen to some of their lyrics, you would think that they could give zero f—-s about other people’s problems. But don’t ever say that Yo Gotti and Jay-Z didn’t use their powers for good. The Memphis-born rap artist and New York-born hip-hop mogul threatened to sue the state of Mississippi with a civil…
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Doug Evans, the White Mississippi Prosecutor Who Tried Curtis Flowers 6 Times, Recuses Himself From 7th Trial
Whatever is next for Curtis Flowers, the man responsible for keeping him in prison for more than two decades will not be involved. Doug Evans, the Mississippi District Attorney who tried and re-tried a quadruple-homicide case against Flowers six times in the last 23 years asked to be recused from prosecuting him again, according to…
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In the Past Week, Five Inmates Have Been Killed in Mississippi Prisons Due to Gang Violence
In Mississippi, five inmates have been killed due to stabbings and attacks within the past week. NBC News reported on Friday that 36-year-old Denorris Howell died after sustaining neck wounds in a fatal attack following an altercation with his cellmate at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. He was the fifth inmate who was killed at…
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Curtis Flowers Is Free From Death Row After 6 Trials, 23 Years in Prison
Curtis Flowers walked out of a Mississippi prison a free man for the first time in more than two decades. All it took was six trials, 23 years behind bars, a podcast investigation, a national outcry and a Supreme Court decision, a substantial bond and a judge who disregarded the wishes of a Mississippi prosecutor…
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The Results Are In: Daniel Cameron Becomes First Black Attorney General in Kentucky
So election night has come and gone, and while we still have to wait a year—or less, if we’re lucky—to rid ourselves of President Untailored Suit, Tuesday night was still rather eventful. In Kentucky, Daniel Cameron became the first African American to be elected attorney general in the state. Of additional note, he also became…
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‘Where Are All the White People?’ Ask White Nationalists Posing in Front of Emmett Till Monument
Less than two weeks after a new, bulletproof Emmett Till memorial plaque went up on the banks of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi, a group of white supremacists was captured on camera attempting to film a propaganda video. The footage came from a new surveillance system that accompanied the redesigned memorial, Patrick Weems, executive director…
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Federal Judge Places Consent Decree on Racist Mississippi County Sheriff’s Department
A federal judge has ordered a Mississippi county sheriff’s office to make sweeping changes after a civil rights lawsuit accused the county’s law enforcement agency of targeting black residents for years. On Thursday, a federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi issued a landmark settlement in the case of Brown v. Madison County (pdf). The…
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Mississippi Police Shot a Bullet Into the Back of His Head. A City Attorney Is Arguing It Doesn’t Matter Since He’s Not a Citizen
Mississippi police should have never been at Ismael Lopez’s door. But in executing a warrant for a man wanted for domestic assault in July 2017, police went to the wrong address, arriving at Lopez’s home instead of the suspect’s. Lopez would not survive the encounter with police, who never announced themselves at the door. He…