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MS Visionary: Nashlie Sephus Sees Opportunity in Jackson
By SUSAN MARQUEZ - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Wed,02/22/23-10:48AM , 1,734 Reads 15,446 Statewide
Dr. Nashlie Sephus sees opportunity where others may see urban blight.
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Mississippi Stories: Alyssa Killebrew, Part 2
By MARSHALL RAMSEY - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,01/16/23-9:12AM , 1,970 Reads 23,093 Statewide
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- Duane Lake spent six years in Coahoma County jail for a murder he didn’t commit — almost three of them before he got indicted. The case against him was eventually dismissed. (Photo credit: Rory Doyle/MCIR)
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MCIR: ‘The system is not designed for you to win’: Underfunded public defender system penalizes Mississippians
By ZHU WU - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,10/31/22-5:12PM , 1,808 Reads 17,232 Statewide
For over 20 years, Stephanie Mallette has served as a public defender working on part-time contracts with Oktibbeha and Webster counties in Mississippi.
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- Sabrina Butler-Smith, 50, gazes at a photo of her infant son, Walter, who died on April 11, 1989, of polycystic kidney disease. Butler-Smith was convicted of killing and put on death row and finally exonerated fives years later following a retrial granted on appeal by the Mississippi Supreme Court. Katie Fogarty/MCIR
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MCIR: Tunnel vision puts blinders on criminal justice system
By KATIE FOGARTY - MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Mon,10/24/22-4:24PM , 2,452 Reads 40,147 Statewide
Sabrina Butler sat terrified in the dimly lit interrogation room in Columbus, Mississippi. White men towered over the 17-year-old Black grieving mother.

She killed her son, didn’t she? they fired at her. She killed him, they told her repeatedly, for over four hours.
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