The proposal puts Sen. Michael McLendon, a Republican from Hernando, who is white and Sen. Reginald Jackson, a Democrat from Marks, who is Black, in the same district. The redrawn District 1 contains a Black voting-age population of 52.4%. McLendon spoke...
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If convicted, he faces life in prison. This is the second time the case has been postponed since West pleaded innocent in September. West’s attorney, Wallie Stuckey, said in November that he had not received all the information he’s legally due from the Mississippi attorney general's ...
Once they survive the fiery hoops and complete the program, offenders almost never find themselves back in court—a considerable improvement over the recidivism of the county jail or state prison system. The pre-trial intervention program is another of Peterson's attempts to divert detainees from ...
"I was wondering, 'It's not necessarily for violent crimes, so why does it continue to happen?' I started researching statistics and how many Black people make up the prison population in the United States," she says. "It really started to hit me the more research that I did." ...
It was the scene of several skirmishes, used for a while The Trans-Mississippi News 7 as a prison camp, and even utilized by the Union forces when the ing defeat at the camp grounds during the fall of 1863. Union Confederates were uprooted from the New Iberia area. Brig. Gen. Albert...
With a population of only 85, how can this small town possibly smell so bad? Oh, probably because a meat processing plant that's bigger than the entire town is right next to it. Source: First Four Mississippi Valley Fair Grandstand Acts For 2023 Announced Filed Under: concerts, country,...
then sent to the prison camp at Florence, SC. From there Smith A new biography of Albert Pike is due out in September was paroled after a few months. His book was originally pub- from the University of Arkansas Press. A Life of Albert Pike lished in 1875 and has remained very scarce...