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Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, authored the Mississippi Juvenile Detention Facilities Licensing Act, which passed in the 2016 legislative session.

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Junior Jail: Surviving Mississippi’s Juvenile Justice System

Many juvenile "offenders" are routinely sent into a separate labyrinth from adult offenders in the justice system, one with its own complex problems, remedies and slowly changing standards.

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