04 Sep Curtis Flowers is a Free Man

Posted at September 04, 2020 in Story by Mississippi Center for Justice

Curtis Flowers – a Black man who has been tried an unprecedented six times for the same crime, despite a lack of evidence linking him to the event – will not have to undergo a seventh trial. After spending 23 years in prison, Flowers no...

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20 Apr Achieving Freedom from ICE

Posted at April 20, 2020 in Story by Mississippi Center for Justice

Tony Agustin, a Mexican national, was arrested without warning last August in a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the Mississippi chicken plant where he worked. The ICE agents arrested 680 people in the raid. They quickly took Tony to a remote detention center in...

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13 Apr Roy Harness’ Redemption

Posted at April 13, 2020 in Story by Mississippi Center for Justice

Roy Harness has always been a hard worker. The Ruth, Mississippi, native and Vietnam-era veteran served three years in the Army before landing a good job as a structural builder with Southern California Edison Power Company in the late 1970s. “My daddy instilled a strong work...

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