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New York City community advocates want to reduce the number of stop-and-frisk encounters with police. The American Civil Liberties Union of New York City reported the citys police department made more than 15,000 stops so far in 2023, the most since 2015. Data also show police primarily stopped Black and Latino people, although they were mostly innocent or not given a summons. ...

Three months after Mississippi’s Supreme Court directed judges in the state to ensure that poor criminal defendants always have a lawyer as they wait to be indicted, one of those justices acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.

Two journalists will produce enterprise and investigative journalism for audiences across Mississippi, including those affected by its criminal justice system.

Sixty years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the promise of legal representation for everyone is largely unrealized.

Mississippi Supreme Court says indigent defendants must have an attorney before indictment and not languish in jail awaiting representation.

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ProPublica has once again selected the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and Caleb Bedillion to be part of its Local Reporting Network.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal won first place in the coveted General Excellence category at the Mississippi Press Association awards ceremony held Saturday.

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