Only Choctaw County Chancery Clerk Steve Montgomery ... that hundreds of people with no criminal charges were held in Mississippi jails each year as they awaited involuntary mental health ...

More help is now available for the mentally ill who’ve committed felonies and are now languishing in local jails. Thursday, ...

Beyond patient care, this facility will ease the burden on Mississippi sheriffs, who, for too long, have had to provide housing and care for forensic patients in county jails. TOP STORIES FROM ...

In Meridian, CORE staff began calling nearby jails and police stations ... the three men to get out of the county. They were never seen alive again. In 1964, Mississippi was the only state ...