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"Fixing Mississippi’s broken parole system."
Media Source:
Mississippi TodayMedia URL:
https://mississippitoday.org/2026/04/10/mississippi-five-parole-loretta-pierre/Date:
2026/04/10Summary:
Mississippi has the highest incarceration rate in the country – and one of the highest in the world, locking up a larger percentage of its population than any independent democratic country on earth. Often people incarcerated in the state are forced to serve far longer sentences than they should. “Parole isn’t a bonus or ‘early’ release. It is part of a person’s sentence, carried out under state supervision,” explains Lewis & Clark Professor Reiko Hillyer. “Yet in Mississippi, parole increasingly functions as extended punishment.”
