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Senior Circuit Judge Tomie Green says that increased oversight and defense funding can help to reduce lengthy pretrial incarceration rates. Photo by Seyma Bayram

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When Michele Purvis Harris was city attorney of Jackson, she heard troubling remarks from the people her office was supposed to prosecute. "I don't want the public defender, I want …

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