Ashton Pittman talks to Mississippi voters about the solutions they want to hear about over just the usual horserace of campaigns. #MSCitizensAgenda
The woman who led racial-healing efforts at the University of Mississippi says the Emmett Till sign incident shows the college must do more.
Private prisons in Mississippi used to house immigrants who committed felonies; now they're housing refugees. Ashton Pittman reports.
Ongoing coverage of the politics and treatment of immigrants and refugees in Mississippi
Mike Espy spoke to the Jackson Free Press about both his history and his approach to his 2018 campaign.
During a May press conference, the Mississippi Hospital Association unveiled a proposal called "Mississippi Cares" that, like Medicaid expansion, would insure around 300,000 more adults in the state, ages 19-64 who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level.
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Rep. Robert Foster says he denied a woman reporter equal access to his campaign because he does not want people to think he’s having an affair. Many of his supporters, though, think it’s about striking back at #MeToo.
For two hours, Williams shared her vision for moving Mississippi forward, and how she, a former U.S. Army officer who also spent years working at Jackson State University, plans to make it happen.
When Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn began looking at ways to solve the lack of high-speed broadband access that plagues much of rural Mississippi last summer, he turned to utility companies to understand the problem.
Private prison corporations run the Federal Bureau of Prisons' 11 contract prisons. "The majority of BOP inmates in private prisons are sentenced criminal aliens who may be deported upon completion of their sentence," the Bureau of Prisons website states.
Olecia James claims the newly integrated Cleveland Central High discriminated against her by lowering her score to name a white student salutatorian.
Inmates housed at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility alleged squalor conditions, solitary confinement practices, lack of medical and mental health care, and an overall unsafe environment in a lawsuit filed in 2013 against the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
About 50 people showed up at a venue that would seat 1,200 to hear Republican candidates explain why voters should elect them as Mississippi's next attorney general—the state's chief legal officer who holds the power to bring or defend against …
During his early years as a U.S. senator, Joe Biden counted Mississippi segregationist Sens. Jim Eastland and John Stennis as his mentors.
JFP Editor Donna Ladd calls for sunshine in officer-involving shootings, injuries.
Jackson police took Cedric Willis from his home when he was 19 in 1994 with him promising his family he'd be "right back." But a broken Hinds County prosecution system and bad policing conspired against him, and he did not …
Sen. Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, who sponsored an anti-abortion bill in Mississippi this year, told the Jackson Free Press that those laws are indeed intended to trigger a Roe "test case" before the Supreme Court.
Evelyn Gandy was the first woman to hold several state-wide offices, including state representative, state treasurer, insurance commissioner and lieutenant governor .
