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Officers Arrested on Bribery Charges

From the U.S. attorney's office, verbatim:

THREE JACKSON POLICE OFFICERS ARRESTED FOR ACCEPTING BRIBES

Jackson, Miss - Monyette Quintel Jefferson, 27, Terence Dale Jenkins, 25, and Anthony Ricardo Payne, Jr., 25, all Jackson Police Department Patrol Officers at the time of the offense, have…

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Mitchell Staying at Clarion-Ledger

by Valerie Wells
Feb. 17, 2012

Award-winning journalist Jerry Mitchell is not among a dozen Clarion-Ledger employees facing an early retirement buyout choice. Speaking at this morning's Friday Forum at Koinonia Coffee House, Mitchell addressed the future of the Gannett-owned daily newspaper.

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Runaway, Prostitute or Victim?

by Elizabeth Waibel
Feb. 16, 2012

Not too long ago in another state, a high-school boy offered a high-school girl a ride home. He drugged her drink, took nude photos of her and used the pictures to blackmail her into having sex with a series of…

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Rep. Brown: Irby Clemency File Missing

House Democrats have just released a statement from Rep. Cecil Brown, D-Jackson, on former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons. In it, he says files are missing for several pardon recipients, including Karen Irby.

Here is the statement, verbatim:

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Pardongate: Continuum

by R.L. Nave
February 15, 2012

Imagine that every person who received a pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour did exactly what the state constitution says and ran a newspaper ad for 30 days before they received the pardon. Then what?

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Of Love and Pardons: How They Met

by R.L. Nave
Feb. 15, 2012

On the night of Dec. 7, 1992, Joseph Ozment and three friends arrived to rob J & R's Old Store in Hernando and found Ricky A. Montgomery there, working alone. During the robbery, one of Ozment's accomplices shot Montgomery three…

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Mississippi Executed Hart Turner

by Ronni Mott
February 8, 2012

UPDATE: Mississippi executed Edwin Hart Turner Feb. 8 at 6:21 p.m.

Attorney General Jim Hood this morning argued successfully in a federal appeals court in New Orleans to lift a stay of execution for Edwin Hart Turner.…

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In Their Words: Jason Moffitt

The JFP is featuring the stories of some of the people Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned, in their own words.

By R.L. Nave

Jason Clint Moffitt
Benton County, 2009

Jason Moffitt comes from what of his letter of recommendation writers…

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Hood Decries “Sunshine Act”

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood cried foul this afternoon on the less-than-sunshiney manner in which the House Sunshine Act was introduced and passed out of committee in less than 18 hours. Hood said he didn't even get a chance to read the bill, which Speaker Philip Gunn sponsored, that would…

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In Their Words: Thomas Cole Kendall

The JFP is featuring the stories of some of the people Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned, in their own words.

By R.L. Nave

Rankin County, 2000

Thomas Cole Kendall moved to a trailer park with a friend in 1998 and started dating…

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Court Orders Stay of Execution for Hart Turner

Read Is State Executing a Mentally Ill Man?

Press Release of James Craig (verbatim).

At 2:30 p.m. today the Federal Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) enjoining the execution of Hart Turner until February 20, 2012.…

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Teaching ‘Nice Girls’ to Stand Up to Bullies

by Elizabeth Waibel
Feb. 6, 2012

Many young girls know one--a "friend" who makes fun of them and points out faults at every opportunity but responds to complaints and hurt feelings with a laugh and "just kidding."

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Is State Executing a Mentally Ill Man?

by Ronni Mott
February 2, 2012

Hart Turner's mind seems to have broken Dec. 12, 1995. After two failed suicide attempts, a half-dozen stays in mental institutions and years of mental and physical abuse, Turner shot and killed Eddie Brooks and Everett Curry in two separate…

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Cyberstalker Hindman: Well-Connected

by R.L. Nave
Feb. 1, 2012

When you're caught in a sting to catch online sex predators, like Douglas Hindman was, it pays to have friends who dine at the governor's mansion when it comes time to get a pardon.

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AG’s Office to Trusty: You Got Served

by R.L. Nave
Jan. 31, 2012

When state investigators caught up to convicted murderer Joseph Ozment Sunday night, he was living in a Laramie, Wyo. hotel and driving the Mercedes-Benz of his fiancee, LaChina Tillman, who has an impressive-sounding job with defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman.

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:: coverstories Mississippi Pardongate: What’s Next? By R.L. Nave February 1, 2012 When state investigators caught up to convicted murderer Joseph Ozment Sunday night, he was living in a Laramie, Wyo., hotel and driving the Mercedes-Benz of his fiancée, LaChina Tillman, an engineer with defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman. read more » » The Barbour Pardons: How We Got Here » The Color of Clemency » Pushing Kids Out » Why They Kill 1 » Divided We Fall: The Killing of James Craig Anderson » News Wars: The Rise and Fall of The Clarion-Ledger 8 » The JFP Interview With Tyrone Lewis 1 » Rush to Judgment: Trying Kids As Adults 3 » The Cost of ‘Tough on Crime’ 5 » Did She Have To Die? 13 more cover stories »
:: COMSTATreports House Burglaries Plague South Jackson by R.L. Nave Jan. 19, 2012 Read the full report here. (pdf 553 KB) A sharp upward spike over the past few weeks in the number of south Jackson house burglaries has police officials scrambling to fix the problem. 1 read more » » Jackson Crime Down, Maybe » Car Crushers Concern Cops more COMSTAT stories »
:: opinioncolumns [Your Turn] Fix the System by Rep. Cecil Brown (D-Jackson) February 22, 2012 The recent flap over Haley Barbour's 200 pardons and commutations has highlighted problems in our current gubernatorial clemency processes. At my request, the staff of the legislative Performance and Expenditure Review Committee reviewed the files of those who… read more » » [Editorial] Stop the Injustice of ‘Justice’ » [Editorial] Change Felony Voting Laws for All 2 » [Editor’s Note] Rethinking “Tough on Crime” 1 » [Barkley] Act on Your Beliefs, Guv 1 » [Editorial] Barbour’s Shameful Pardons » [Jones] A Lottery for 3-Year Olds 1 » [Editorial] Follow Lead of Powell, Barksdale » [Kamikaze] Just the Messenger 39 » [Editor’s Note] What the Mamas Taught Us » [Editor’s Note] The Best We Can Be more opinion columns »
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