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Dentist still serving on watchdog board, despite covering up $29K stolen from the Mississippi Dental Association — some of it going to casinos
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Thu,05/11/23-12:52PM , 457 Reads 7,767 Statewide
A Gulfport dentist continues to serve on the state dental watchdog board, despite making thousands in unauthorized campaign contributions from a Mississippi Dental Association bank account, including $5,400 to Gov. Tate Reeves, and despite covering up $29,225 stolen from that account, some of which went to casinos.
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Officers piled on top of Robert Loggins at 6:04 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2018. They remained there for more than three minutes, and when they got up, Loggins didn’t move. Six minutes later, someone finally checked his pulse. He had none. Credit: Photo from Grenada County Jail video/MCIR

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Grenada officers can be sued in jail death, judge rules
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,03/13/23-2:26PM , 682 Reads 12,888 Statewide
A federal judge rejected the claim that Grenada police officers should be protected by qualified immunity in the 2018 death of Robert Loggins in the local jail.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock moves the case one step closer to trial in Mississippi.
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Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain talks to inmates following the first graduation on April 1, 2022, of the new comprehensive Betty Ford-type alcohol and drug treatment program at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in Leake County. Photo courtesy of MDOC

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MCIR: Mississippi prisons may soon exceed capacity
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,12/12/22-3:36PM , 992 Reads 25,017 Statewide
Mississippi — the world’s leader in imprisoning people — will soon skyrocket past its capacity to hold them all.
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Sherwood Brown has been exonerated of the charges that sent him to death row in Mississippi in 1995 for a triple murder he did not commit. On August 24, 2021, DeSoto County Circuit Court Judge Jimmy McClure granbted a prosecution motion to dismiss charges against Brown (pictured after his release), who was released later that day after having spent 26 years on the state’s death row or facing the prospects of a capital retrial. Christina Stewbe/Mississippi Innocence Project

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MCIR: Black Americans seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted
By JERRY MITCHELL - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Tue,10/18/22-10:48AM , 616 Reads 16,575 Statewide
Eddie Lee Howard Jr. and Sherwood Brown each spent 26 years on Mississippi’s death row for murders they did not commit — only to walk free last year.
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