AP study: TN victim funding denied disproportionately for Black applicants : vimarsana.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Black applicants to Tennessee’s criminal injuries compensation fund got disproportionately denied funding, according to new data obtained and analyzed by the Associated Press. Laquita Hughes’s sister was one of the applicants denied in 2018. Their father was murdered and they sought help for funeral and burial costs. “It was a total of […]

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