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Within two hours of Mississippi Today publishing a story about death row men's stories being posted online, prison officials took away their personal tablets.

MAGCOR lacks a documented financial system with internal controls resulting in at least one documented instance of fraud and abuse, according to the Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review.

Rafael Alambarrio had escaped political persecution in Venezuela in 2024 and began building a life in Texas. He met his wife, Heather, and they married a year later.

The Workers Circle, a New York-based national social justice organization, coordinated a news conference. with immigration detainees at Adams County Detention Center and family members.

While the grand jury heard evidence that he likely drowned, both the state medical examiner and a pathologist who completed an independent autopsy ruled Nolan Wells’ death as undetermined.

Digital forensic experts hired by Nolan Wells’ family examined his phone, including images, videos and social media apps to create a timeline providing more information about what led to his death on Horn Island.

The Hinds County coroner's office is using this building located at 12614 MS-18 as a temporary morgue housing unclaimed bodies and those awaiting

University of Mississippi students on campus, Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Oxford. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Since Nolan Wells was found dead on a part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, the National Park Service should investigate, two members of Congress say.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU of Mississippi are representing Lexington resident Terrance Gypson, who alleges police threw him to the ground and arrested him without probable cause…