September 7, 2021
At a Sept. 2 special Jackson City Council meeting, Finance Committee Chairman and Ward 6 Councilman Aaron Banks defended the council’s action to reverse its plan to spend $1 million to rent jail beds in Holmes and Yazoo counties for people charged with misdemeanors and to fund an increase in the number of Hinds County deputy sheriffs working in the capital city. Photo courtesy City of Jackson
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Jackson Rescinds $1 Million Plan to Rent Misdemeanor Jail Space, Fund Deputies
The Jackson City Council has reversed its controversial 2020 decision to use $500,000 to rent jail spaces in Holmes and Yazoo counties for people charged with low-level misdemeanors in the …
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