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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Contempt

JACKSON, Miss. — In the Justice Department’s action seeking to end unconstitutional conditions in a detention center in Mississippi, a federal judge in the state held Hinds County and its Board of Supervisors in contempt of court for failing to address problems they had promised to fix.

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