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- Mississippi Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, listens as Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Sen. Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, provides details on the body's passing a Medicaid expansion bill at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,03/28/24-5:40PM , 400 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House.
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- Mississippi State Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Kevin Blackwell, R-Southaven, entertains questions from committee members on a proposal to expand Medicaid benefits to tens of thousands of residents, during its meeting, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in the Mississippi State Capitol. However, the senate proposal would cover fewer people than the House version. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi Senate Republicans push Medicaid expansion 'lite' proposal that would cover fewer people
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,03/27/24-6:37PM , 474 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A proposal to expand Medicaid to tens of thousands of residents in one of the poorest states in the U.S. is still alive in the Mississippi Legislature . But Senate Republicans changed the plan Wednesday so it would cover far fewer people and bring less federal money to the state.
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- Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen. (19 March 2024)
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Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’ deputies get yearslong sentences for racist torture of 2 Black men
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,03/18/24-11:38PM , 1,153 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sat on the front row of a packed courtroom Tuesday and watched as a federal judge handed down yearslong sentences to two of the white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured the two Black men last year in a brutal attack that began on the basis of race.
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- Michael Corey Jenkins, left, and Eddie Terrell Parker, right, stand with lead attorney Malik Shabazz, as they call on a federal judge Monday, March 18, 2024, at a news conference in Jackson, Miss., to impose the harshest possible penalties against six former Mississippi Rankin County law enforcement officers who committed numerous acts of racially motivated, violent torture on them in 2023. The six former law officers pleaded guilty to a number of charges for torturing them. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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2 Black men tortured by Mississippi officers call for toughest sentences
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,03/18/24-12:16PM , 751 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Black men who were tortured by six Mississippi law enforcement officers called on a federal judge Monday to impose the harshest possible penalties against the disgraced former lawmen.
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