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Bills restoring voting rights to 32 felons advance
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,04/24/24-2:00AM , 744 Reads
JACKSON — Mississippi legislators have advanced bills to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records.
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Mississippi State Senate Judiciary B Committee member Sen. Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, listens as committee members review legislation that would restore suffrage for some people convicted of felonies in the past, Monday, April 22, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The bills that were approved by the committee will be presented before the state Senate for its approval. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi lawmakers move toward restoring voting rights to 32 felons as broader suffrage bill dies
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,04/22/24-6:25PM , 466 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators advanced bills Monday to give voting rights back to 32 people convicted of felonies, weeks after a Senate leader killed a broader bill that would have restored suffrage to many more people with criminal records.
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Bul Mabil has tears streaming down his face as he speaks during a press conference to ask for the public's help in finding his brother, Dau Mabil, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Jackson Miss., on Monday, April 1, 2024. As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. In April, fishermen found his body floating in a river in the state — prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death. (Lauren Witte/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

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A man escaped Sudan's bloody civil war. His mysterious death in Missisippi has sparked suspicion
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Fri,04/19/24-11:14PM , 645 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. This month, fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river, prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death.
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Azia Wiggins, an organizer with Working Together Mississippi, opens the Mississippi Medicaid Expansion Rally at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, with a song, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Advocates push for full Medicaid expansion as Mississippi legislators enter negotiations
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,04/16/24-5:20PM , 434 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A coalition of advocates rallied for full Medicaid expansion Tuesday at the Mississippi Capitol as lawmakers prepare to negotiate a final plan that could extend health care coverage to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
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