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Legislative rule limits lawmakers’ ability to boost spending for underfunded...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaLawmakers in the Mississippi House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, January 14, 2020. If history repeats itself, it is likely...
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Rome: Community in the Shadow of Parchman Endures the Storm
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America The only post office in the unincorporated community of Rome, Miss. The community is in Sunflower County and it is less than five miles from...
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Photo Gallery | Reform advocates, families demand action following multiple...
Porsha Taylor held a photo of her brother, Antonio Taylor, in front of the Mississippi Capitol. Antonio was found dead inside of his cell at Mississippi’s State Penitentiary at Parchman December 2019....
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Gov. Reeves, in first State of the State, vows to shutter Parchman’s Unit 29;...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaGov. Tate Reeves delivers his first State of the State Address at the State Capitol Monday, January 27, 2020. JACKSON — Amid mounting pressure from...
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‘We are not anti-public school people, but we are pro-choice,’ supporters say...
Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi TodayEmpower Mississippi’s Grant Callen speaks during Mississippi “School Choice Day.” The Mississippi State Capitol was awash with bright yellow scarves Tuesday as...
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RIP: Allen Brown, Ole Miss football hero, who played for first 2 Super Bowl...
Taylor Denman/Natchez DemocratAllen Brown, in 2016, at a Historic Natchez Foundation presentation, at which he was one of the presenters. Allen Brown was a big, strapping man with a kind, sweet, humble...
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Fact check: Mississippi legislative Democratic response to State of the State...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaRep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, speaks about the Rep. Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, speaks about Senate Bill No. 2001 during a special session at the...
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Democrat Jackson-McCray should keep District 40 seat, special House committee...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaHester Jackson-McCray, right, sits next to her lawyer as he prepares to speak on her behalf during a hearing at the State Capitol Wednesday, Jan....
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Mississippians’ tales of Super Bowl IV, 50 years ago, the last time Chiefs...
Rick Cleveland Jackson’s Noland “Super Gnat” Smith still has his 50-year-old Super Bowl ring. The Kansas City Chiefs last played in the Super Bowl 50 years ago, famously defeating the Minnesota...
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Want out of Jail? First You Have To Take a Fast-Food Job
Alex Merto for The Marshall Project Working Toward Freedom To pay off fines and other debts, inmates in Mississippi’s little-known restitution centers must work grueling low-wage jobs, pay rent and...
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‘It’s a first step’: $1,000 teacher pay raise moves forward in Senate
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaDelbert Hosemann during the opening day of the legislative session in the Mississippi House chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday,...
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Mississippi moving inmates to privately owned Tallahatchie County prison
Troy Catchings / Clarksdale Press Register / AP fileThe Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, shown Wednesday, July 21, 2004, in Tutwiler, Miss., was the scene of an uprising from Colorado...
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Prison death lawsuit alleges corrections staff failed to stop assault on...
Rita KorsenNicole Rathman, 33, was a prisoner at a central Mississippi when she died on August 23. A new lawsuit alleges that staff at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility failed to stop an...
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$5 million ‘hub’ expands effort to close skills gap, increase tech firm...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayStudent graduates of Base Camp, Facebook representatives, community members, and others attend the groundbreaking of Everest, a tech and innovation hub in Water Valley...
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With a tough challenge looming, Hyde-Smith has raised less money than 96 U.S....
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s campaign is “very pleased” with support so far, especially after record amounts were raised in statewide races last year. U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is facing a potentially...
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State’s top recruit McKinnley Jackson appears headed out of state
Keith Warren/MHSAAMcKinnley Jackson, 99, dominated Alabama linemen in the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star game. Mississippi’s population has declined in recent years. Young people have led the way. That’s...
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Want out of Jail? First You Have To Take a Fast-Food Job
Alex Merto for The Marshall Project Working Toward Freedom To pay off fines and other debts, inmates in Mississippi’s little-known restitution centers must work grueling low-wage jobs, pay rent and...
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‘Superhero’ Garrison Starr finds better days
Neilson HubbardSinger/songwriter and Hernando native Garrison Starr has found ‘better days’ Midway through the two-minute trailer for the 2019 Fred Rogers biopic “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,”...
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Many Mississippi prisoners kept locked up past release dates due to housing...
State Parole Board Chairman Steven Pickett Hundreds of state prisoners remain incarcerated months after they are eligible to go free each year, a new report shows. Over the last four fiscal years,...
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Civil rights probe into Mississippi prisons officially opened, Justice...
Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For AmericaParchman prison. Jan. 15, 2020. The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into four Mississippi prisons. The federal...
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