Barrington M. Salmon – Inhumane conditions driving up the death toll in US state of Mississippi prisons are unlikely to change because lawmakers and officials lack the incentive and political courage to reform the system, criminal justice activists said.
“This is a failure of the criminal justice system,” National Center for Juvenile Justice Reform Executive Director Rahim Jenkins said. “In a lot of areas, states like Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia, the prison industry drives the economy… so the critical will [to fix it] may not be there in the South.”
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