This week in politics: Parchman Farm bill dies in committee
A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...
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This week in politics: Parchman Farm bill dies in committee
An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday ...
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Down on the Farm: Parchman Prison Prayer is our Album of the Week
Subtitled 'Another Mississippi Sunday Morning', this record of prisoners' songs is folk music like you've never heard it before Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning was recorded ...
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Echo Theater Company Reveals Upcoming Season Lineup
The Echo Theater Company has announced another three-play season for 2025 that will provoke, entertain and surprise audiences. Learn more about the ilneup here!
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Freedom Rider Byron Baer spent 34 years in the NJ legislature — and 45 days in a Mississippi prison
During his second term in the Assembly, in 1974, Baer went to a migrant workers’ camp in Gloucester County to make a surprise inspection at the Rosario Sorbello & Son farm ... Baer while jailed at ...
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U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear case of man sentenced in beating death of elderly Clinton woman
He left the hotel a short time later and drove to another casino in Simpson’s car before driving toward Alabama around 3 a.m. Simpson’s body was later found at a hog farm near ... held at the ...
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Senate committee kills second effort to shutter Mississippi’s 124-year-old prison
Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.