We can start by expanding access to care, but we also need to look beyond medicine and address harmful behaviors and poverty.
Tag: Mississippi
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6 Ex-Officers Plead Guilty to State Charges in Torture of Two Black Men
The former Rankin County, Miss., law enforcement officers pleaded guilty to state charges on Monday, less than two weeks after they entered guilty pleas to federal civil rights offenses.
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Abortion Rights and Democracy Are Being Put to the Test in Ohio
Why supporters of reproductive freedom across the country must continue to flock to the polls.
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How to Catch Pandemic Fraud? Prosecutors Try Novel Methods.
Strained by limited resources, prosecutors are deploying special teams and nurturing local relationships to catch up to a wave of fraud.
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Appeals Court Overturns Mississippi’s Lifetime Ban on Voting for Former Felons
A federal appeals court said that barring people convicted of certain felonies from voting pointlessly denied them access to “the democratic core of American citizenship.”