April 24, 2018
A recent survey of Mississippi jails conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law shows that 2,500 defendants—more than one-third of all of those jailed before trial—have been in jail 90 or more consecutive days. More than 600 have been in jail longer than a year.
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