President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to nominate a Mississippi Court of Appeals judge who previously served as a Republican state lawmaker to a long-vacant seat on the Fifth Circuit.
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A judge has been shot and critically wounded outside a courthouse in Mississippi, police said.
Read moreA mother asked a federal judge to enjoin the Pearl (Miss.) Public School District from inflicting corporal punishment on children with disabilities.
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Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature is trying to restrict the reasons women may seek abortion, after federal courts blocked time limitations that the state tried to enforce for the past two years.
Read moreDonna Harris, a personal fitness trainer with a master’s degree in occupational therapy, claims the Mississippi State Board of Health enforces an unconstitutional policy that prohibits her from charging clients for her weight-loss program, in federal court.
Read moreA Mississippi jury has convicted a man in the 2017 shooting deaths of eight people, including some of his own relatives and a deputy sheriff who responded to a domestic disturbance call.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Thursday once again blocked Mississippi’s persistent efforts to usher in some of the nation’s most sweeping abortion restrictions, striking down a controversial ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat has been detected – around six weeks of pregnancy.
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Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging the misery for worried people who still can’t get back to their homes.
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The swollen Pearl River appeared to have crested Monday in Mississippi’s capital, but authorities warned the hundreds of evacuees in the Jackson area not to rush back home until they get the all clear, and a forecast of more rain put counties farther south at risk of flooding.
Read moreDays of heavy rain have created a dilemma for authorities managing dams along swollen rivers in Mississippi and Tennessee. The water has to be released eventually, worsening the flooding for people living downstream.
Read moreWith the waters in the Pearl River continuing to rise in and around Mississippi’s capital city and more rain on the way this week, the governor warned residents that it would be days before flood waters start to recede.
Read moreFourteen inmates at Parchman Prison filed a federal class action against the Mississippi Department of Prisons for the “serious harm in the form of prison violence, and … the squalid conditions in which they are forced to live,” which led to nine deaths already this year at Parchman.
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Murders, suicides, riots, escapes and substandard living conditions are just a few of the issues in the Mississippi prison system that prompted the federal government to step in.
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As Mississippi lawmakers seek ways to improve a prison system shaken by recent deadly violence, a related problem is looming: A judge said Tuesday that parole officers are “woefully underpaid and overworked.”
Read moreAn attorney for Mississippi on Wednesday told the Fifth Circuit that the crux of a voter redistricting case comes down to whether black voters in a given district have a lesser chance of electing the candidates of their choice than the nonblack minority in the district.
Read moreA man was properly sentenced to 12 years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for possessing a cell phone in a jail where he was being held on a misdemeanor charge, the state’s supreme court ruled. The man claims his sentence is “grossly disproportionate” to the crime but it falls within the statutory range of three to 15 years.
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Burglary is not supposed to be punishable by death. Nor is burglary, armed robbery, selling cocaine or stealing a vehicle. But that is what the mothers of three inmates say was given to their sons, all of whom were killed in prison violence last week in Mississippi.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday grilled a former Republican Mississippi state lawmaker now up for a federal judgeship on his political past, including his support for overturning the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion decision and his record on issues from guns to voting rights.
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The leader of Mississippi’s underfunded prison system was pleading with lawmakers for money to hire more guards and pay them better in 2012 when he warned, “I see trouble down the road.”
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Mississippi authorities were searching for two prisoners believed to have escaped Saturday from one of several prisons rocked by violence that left at least five inmates dead in the past week.
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