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Jan 7, 2020

Brown v. Madison County Consent Decree Addresses Racially Motivated Policing

A groundbreaking consent decree will help to prevent the Madison County Sheriff’s Department from engaging in the racially motivated policing practices that have historically been its hallmark. The class-...

Jan 7, 2020

Discriminatory Panhandling Ordinances Overturned

This year, the ACLU of Mississippi, in a letter nationally coordinated by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, relaunched a campaign demanding that 16 jurisdictions in Mississippi repeal...

Dec 10, 2019

In 2019, We Fought Across the Country to Dismantle Mass Incarceration. We Won on Multiple Fronts.

Ari Rosmarin, Deputy Director, ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice

This year,...

Ari Rosmarin, Deputy Director, ACLU Campaign for Smart Justice

This year,...

Dec 3, 2019

Hattiesburg, MS Decriminalizes Marijuana for 1st Time Offenders

Despite comparable usage rates, blacks are almost four times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana. Unequal enforcement of drug laws combined with over-reliance on policing...

Dec 3, 2019

MS Families in Desperate Need after ICE Raids

In the largest workplace raid in American history, ICE rounded up and detained more than 680 members of our communities, putting families in immediate crisis. Hundreds of children returned from their first...

Jun 28, 2019

Joint Press Statement from the Board Chair and Executive Director of the ACLU of Mississippi announcing Resignation of the Executive Director

From Cassandra Welchlin, Chair, Board of Directors, ACLU of Mississippi

It is with a mix of sadness and excitement for Mississippi that the Board of Directors announces Jennifer...

From Cassandra Welchlin, Chair, Board of Directors, ACLU of Mississippi

It is with a mix of sadness and excitement for Mississippi that the Board of Directors announces Jennifer...