A federal judge has issued a civil contempt order against Mississippi's largest county, saying officials have failed to fix more than two dozen problems in a jail plagued by violence and lax security.
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge has issued a civil contempt order against Mississippi's largest county, saying officials have failed to fix more than two dozen problems in a jail plagued by violence and lax security.
Supervisors promised again in 2020 to fix the problems as the county faced the threat of being held in contempt of court. The legal action over the Hinds County jail is separate from an investigation that the Justice Department began in February 2020 after an outbreak of violence inReeves wrote Friday that the situation at the Hinds County jail “deteriorated significantly in 2021.” He wrote that a monitoring team found in May that “there continue to be fires set by inmates, there is an extremely large amount of contraband in the facility including drugs.
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