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The MBAA Education Initiative: How Mississippi Bail Agents Hit the Road and Started Changing Minds

How one association traded lobbying for listening — and changed how Mississippi understands bail. For years, a quiet knowledge gap sat in courtrooms, sheriff’s offices, and city halls across Mississippi. Most folks — judges, sheriffs, clerks, mayors, and policymakers — knew what a bail bond was in the dictionary sense. But the

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Surety Bail Was Always the Answer. Bail Reform Spent a Decade Attacking It — and Hinds County Is the Result

For nearly ten years, an organized movement told Mississippi that secured bail was the enemy of justice. They got much of what they wanted. Now a federal receiver runs the Hinds County jail, hundreds sit inside without an indictment, and the county is shipping the overflow out of county at

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Public Safety in Mississippi: We Need to Talk About What Happens After the Arrest

Arrests grab the headlines, but real accountability begins — or disappears — after the suspect enters the courtroom. It’s time Mississippi demands transparency on what actually happens in our criminal justice system. For months, Mississippi has been flooded with headlines of homicides, shootings, aggravated assaults, and robberies. This past week was