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This doctor’s testimony has helped put people in prison. Some say he doesn’t...
This story is the second part in Mississippi Today’s “Shaky Science, Fractured Families” investigation about the state’s only child abuse pediatrician crossing the line from medicine into law...
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Mississippi’s child abuse pediatrician works between medicine and the justice...
This story is the first part in Mississippi Today’s “Shaky Science, Fractured Families” investigation about the state’s only child abuse pediatrician crossing the line from medicine into law...
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Mississippi remains an outlier in jailing people with serious mental illness...
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Their families said they needed treatment. Mississippi officials threw them...
This article contains detailed descriptions of mental illness and suicide. If you or someone you know needs help: Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 Text the Crisis Text Line from...
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‘Mississippi chose to fight’: Court overturns Justice Department efforts to...
A dozen years after the Department of Justice first sent Mississippi a letter detailing shortcomings in its mental health system, the state may have finally beaten the federal agency. A federal...
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Mississippi jailed more than 800 people awaiting psychiatric treatment in a...
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Jailed for their own safety, 14 Mississippians died awaiting mental health...
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Hundreds of Mississippians are jailed for mental illness every year. 5...
In Mississippi, the path to treatment for a serious mental illness may run through your local jail– even if you have not been charged with any crime. In 2023, Mississippi Today and ProPublica...
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Lawmakers plan challenge to jail as ‘default place’ for people awaiting...
For years, Mississippians have been jailed without criminal charges while they await mental health treatment. This session, lawmakers will propose bills aiming to significantly curtail that practice,...
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How many are jailed awaiting mental health treatment in Mississippi? We still...
No one in Mississippi knows exactly how often people are jailed without criminal charges while they await psychiatric evaluations and treatment through the civil commitment process. That remains true...
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‘Depriving people of their liberty.’ Lawmakers question jail without criminal...
Restricting the use of jail to detain people who haven’t been charged with a crime – a practice that is extremely rare in the vast majority of the country but common in Mississippi – is a top priority...
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Incarcerated Mississippians with mental illness face nation’s second-longest...
Mississippians who need mental health treatment before they can stand trial have to wait in jail longer than people in any other state but Texas, according to a new national study by the nonprofit...
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Charged with no crime. Locked up for 12 days. He died waiting for help
James Tatsch was not charged with any crime. But when he was found unresponsive in an isolation cell at the Alcorn County Jail on Jan. 17, he had been locked up for 12 days. He died at the local...
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Mississippi podiatrists want ‘ankle privileges.’ Other doctors may stand in...
What is a foot? Underneath the skin, tendons such as the Achilles and muscles such as the tibialis posterior run from the lower leg toward the heel and toe, complicating any attempt at a simple...
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Lawmakers could limit when county officials in Mississippi can jail people...
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Lawmakers advance bills to restrict jailing people awaiting mental health...
Two bills imposing strict limits on when people can be jailed without criminal charges while they await mental health treatment are headed to the House and Senate floors. Both measures would allow...
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House approves limits to jailing people with mental illness charged with no...
The House approved legislation strictly limiting when Mississippians can be jailed solely on the basis of mental illness, when they have not been charged with any crime– something that currently...
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Senate passes measure restricting jailing of people with mental illness
On Tuesday morning, Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, got a phone call from a Mississippi community mental health center staffer who wanted to share a story. A few days earlier, a man had filed an affidavit...
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‘So medieval’: Man with mental illness jailed for 20 days without charges
In January, the head of Mississippi’s Department of Mental Health told lawmakers that people who aren’t charged with a crime are spending less time in jail than they used to: The average wait time for...
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