Senate Corrections Chair Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, talks with Mississippi Today’s Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison about the state’s high incarceration rates and efforts to give more people being held in prison an opportunity for parole. Barnett explains why he works so hard on efforts to ease sentencing guidelines even after his father was murdered.
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