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Council President Melvin Priester Jr. could not confirm that the City is ready to settle the class-action suit against it for “pay or stay” policy in Municipal Court.

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For more than 20 days in 2015, disabled 58-year-old Jerome Bell slept on the concrete floor of a cell with no cushion or mattress in a crowded Hinds County jail. …

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