New data released today from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families finds that Mississippi restaurant, retail, and construction workers are among thethousands of uninsured residents that would be eligible for health insurance if the state expanded Medicaid. “It’s time to address the needs of...
Mississippi Center for Justice stands with all people of conscience who condemn the official proclamation signed by Governor Tate Reeves declaring April 2021 as ConfederateHeritage Month. The Confederacy represents the very worst of our nation and our state, and Reeves’ crass romanticization of it is...
Maria, a 32-year-old resident of Holmes County, was at the end of her tether. Rent was past due – COVID had greatly reduced the number of hours she worked – and an eviction would force her and her 13-year-old daughter to gather what they could...
Jackson, MS – Elizabeth Buyan was named director of philanthropy for Mississippi Center for Justice. In this role, Elizabeth will lead the institution’s fundraising programs, including foundation giving, corporate sponsorships, signature events such as Mississippi on the Potomac and Champions of Justice, and individual giving. “We are excited to have Elizabeth join us,” says President and CEO Vangela...
JACKSON, Miss. – South Africans Dennis Appel and Christopher Boshoff came to northern Mississippi in 2019 on H-2A agricultural visas, believing they would be working on Kyle Mills’ farm in Winona. Instead of planting corn and soybeans on Mills’ farm, Mills made them work an average...
March 18, 2021 – Last week, Hinds County Chancery Court Judge Crystal Wise Martin ordered the disclosure of contract monitoring reports and responses to those reports requested more than one year ago by investigative journalists at The Marshall Project. The documents concern three Mississippi prisons managed...
By Vangela M. Wade, President and CEO of Mississippi Center for Justice [caption id="" align="alignright" width="350"] Photo: Barbara Gautt, Clarion Ledger[/caption] It’s been four weeks since Jackson experienced an historic winter storm. When the weather warmed, decrepit water and sewer pipes across the city began to burst....
After 23 years behind bars – much of it in solitary – and enduring six trials for the same capital murders he did not commit, Mississippi is finally helping Curtis Flowers rebuild his life. The state of Mississippi will pay Curtis Flowers $500,000 for his...
In MCJ's redistricting case that led to the election in 2019 of the first Black state senator from Mississippi Senate District 22 in the Mississippi Delta, the federal court overseeing the case awarded MCJ $165,397.50 for the work of our Impact Litigation Director Rob McDuff...
In 2019, Mississippi Center for Justice Housing Law Attorney William Bedwell received a call from Raciella Edgar, an African American transgendered woman of Cuban descent living in a mobile home park in Gulfport, Mississippi. The property manager had discriminated against Edgar by repeatedly telling her...
