April 7, 2016
Hinds County Public Defender Michele Purvis Harris said that immediately upon arrest, the media tend to focus on the criminal, skewing perceptions of the magnitude of the crime problem in Jackson.
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Local Criminal System: Moves Like 'Quicksand,' Leading to 'Unintended Punishment'
The local criminal-justice system is slow-moving, lacks coordination, and pulls and keeps offenders inside it like "quicksand," participants at Mayor Tony Yarber's Criminal Justice Reform Task Force meeting said yesterday.
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