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Thread: Let’s be honest about Parchman and other prisons in Mississippi. Most people simply don’t care about conditions and corruption. Cedric Willis, a falsely accused man released after years there told us the realities back in 2006: m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2006/jul/… 
2. all the political posturing about gangs being responsible is dumb bullshit. Cedric explained in 2006, as have @BennyIvey1 and others have told me since, that prisoners must split into “brotherhoods” for protection and survival especially since many guards are dirty. Cedric:
3. More Cedric on guards’ abuse at Parchman:
1. Thread: Stellar pieces by my small-but-mighty
@JxnFreePress reporting team from last week: First, State reporter @ashtonpittman does the kind of indepth campaign reporting you don’t find elsewhere in Mississippi. Read current cover story. #MSelex #MSgov
@JxnFreePress reporting team from last week: First, State reporter @ashtonpittman does the kind of indepth campaign reporting you don’t find elsewhere in Mississippi. Read current cover story. #MSelex #MSgov
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 2. City reporter @SeymaBayram0 brought us the second installment in her #smartjustice series on Hinds County (and state) criminal-justice system, this one on weak indigent defense in our state. I'm learning so much I've never seen reported in her series. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
@JxnFreePress @ashtonpittman 3. Investigative fellow @nickjudin did his first magazine piece for us on what the Glenn Boyce/#IHL controversy says about academic freedom at the University of Mississippi. Wonderful writing, interviews and deep reporting. He has quite the source base. jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/…
The owner of a restaurant across from Mississippi's last abortion clinic says activists shout at his patrons while they eat on the patio, show them bloody images of fetuses, and tell them he is "cooking babies in the kitchen & frying little kids." #jxn â…ź7
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
Business owners in Jackson's Fondren community, where the abortion clinic is located, spoke out at City Council in favor of an ordinance that would create a 15' buffer zone around the clinic and limit the use of amplifiers and speakers. 2/7
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
"Children nap on sidewalks outside the abortion clinic while their anti-abortion activist parents march up & down the streets for hours, using bullhorns to plead with or denounce as 'jezebels' women who are trying to make their way to the doors." 3/7
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/sep/…
