Michelle Liu

@mchelleliu

covering criminal justice issues+policy for via . mliu@mississippitoday.org

Jackson, Miss.
Vrijeme pridruživanja: listopad 2014.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    9. sij

    There’s a place in Mississippi where judges sentence people not to an amount of time, but to an amount of money. How to get out of these jails? Work at a burger joint. Or a catfish plant. New, by & me, for +:

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  2. prije 12 minuta

    Read background on DOJ's past actions in the state here, and how federal involvement could take years, by :

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  3. prije 14 minuta

    DOJ's civil rights division has officially announced an investigation into four Mississippi prisons: Parchman, CMCF, SMCI, and Wilkinson.

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  4. prije 6 sati

    Hundreds of people stay locked up in state prisons for months after they're eligible for release each year. Why? They've got nowhere else to go:

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  5. proslijedio/la je Tweet
    4. velj

    “In the intervening years, Shelby has missed birthday parties, funerals and other family occasions.... ‘All you could have amounted to haunts you like a ghost,’ Shelby wrote. ‘You do not just lose loved ones in here; you lose you.’”

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  6. 4. velj

    Lawyers for Tasha Shelby, who's spent the last two decades in prison after she was convicted of shaking a toddler to death in 2000, say scientific advances show Shelby is innocent. They're making the case to an appeals court tmrw. :

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  7. 4. velj

    This corrections/Jud B hearing has pivoted from discussions on interventions courts and geriatric parole to a presentation on gangs.

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  8. 31. sij

    “He then asked if I was from the state lottery. I said ‘no,’ while simultaneously thinking how much I have in common with a lottery. Unpredictable and ultimately disappointing.” ...same

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    30. sij

    A special House Election Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend to the full House to seat Hester Jackson-McCray as the representative for District 40 in DeSoto County.

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  10. 28. sij

    The Democrats' response: A proposal to cut the state's prison population, which totals some 19,000 people currently.

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  11. 27. sij

    I would like to read a story interviewing gender studies majors & professors across Mississippi...

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  12. 27. sij

    Here are the full prepared remarks about Mississippi’s corrections system from the governor’s State of the State speech:

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  13. 27. sij

    Gov. Tate Reeves has announced that he is working to close Parchman’s “most notorious unit,” 29, long plagued with structural issues & recently in the news for outbursts of deadly violence among prisoners.

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  14. 24. sij
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  15. 23. sij

    In other news, the governor’s office released photos from Reeves’s tour of Parchman and Walnut Grove today:

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  16. 23. sij

    A rally of prisoners’ advocates here at the Capitol has included nonprofits+legislators, but I’ve found the voices of formerly incarcerated men featured esp. powerful. Here, Keewin Grayer describes the experience of group punishment and cell phones in prison:

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  17. 23. sij
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  18. 23. sij

    "If there’s anybody in American history who has ever gotten 12 years for doing what Willie did, then we’re unaware of it," Nash's appeals lawyer tells me.

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  19. 23. sij

    States where Nash would serve less prison time for the same crime: pretty much all of them, except for maybe Illinois and Arkansas? But in IL you can't be convicted if you possessed the phone when arrested. And attys found no examples of ppl serving such long sentences in AR.

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  20. 23. sij

    Some crimes for which Nash would serve less prison time than he currently is, per this brief: Burning the Newton County jail to the ground, breaking a jailer's nose, bribing a political candidate, or trying to poison someone to death.

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  21. 23. sij

    Attorneys at SPLC representing Willie Nash, the man whose 12-year sentence for having a cellphone in jail was recently upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court, are asking for a rehearing.

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