Mississippi Today Editor-at-Large Marshall Ramsey and FWD.us State Director Alesha Judkins talk about Mississippi’s ongoing incarceration crisis for this episode of Mississippi Stories. FWD.us is a nonprofit advocacy group founded by technology and business executives that work to support immigration and criminal justice reform. Currently, Mississippi has the highest imprisonment rate in the nation and fives time the national average for the length of stay in jail. Judkins discusses what contributes to these statistics and what can be done to reform or alleviate the issues in our state’s prison system.

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