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Media and Press
- Courtney Ann Jackson, Advocates still fighting for voting rights restorations, despite lack of action this legislative session, WLBT (Apr. 12, 2023)
- Quentin Smith, Judge issues ruling saying the Rankin County Sheriff’s Dept. violated Public Records Act, WLBT (Mar. 17, 2023)
- Johnny Kauffman, Episode 773 Act 1: Voter... Reformed, This American Life (Jun. 17, 2022)
- Sam Levine, The racist 1890 law that’s still blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting, The Guardian (Jan. 8, 2022)
- Amber Helsel, Blake Feldman, Jackson Free Press (Jun. 13, 2018)
- Arielle Dreher, Debtors’ Prisons Out, Parole for More People, Jackson Free Press (Apr. 25, 2018)
- Caleb Bedillion, Body Camera Policies in Mississippi Fail to Safeguard Transparency, ACLU Finds, Daily Journal (Jan. 8, 2018)
- Ashley Norwood, ACLU Wants Statewide Policy on Body Cameras for Officers, Miss. Pub. Broadcasting (Jan. 9, 2018)
- Katie Rose Quandt, How the Cruel Campaign to End 'Conjugal' Visits Hurts Incarcerated Moms Most, VICE (Jul. 26, 2017)
- Mike Russell, Recording the Police with your Cellphone Camera. Is it Legal?, WTVA (Jul. 12, 2017)
- R.L. Nave, MDOC Inmate Deaths so far this Year Top All of 2016, Miss. Today (Jul. 6, 2017)
- Arielle Dreher, 'Spoiled' Criminal Justice Reform Bill Dies After Governor's Veto, Jackson Free Press (Apr. 21, 2017)
- Arielle Dreher, Cruel & Unusual? The Death Penalty’s Trials in Mississippi, Jackson Free Press (Mar. 22, 2017)
- Caleb Bedillion, Policy Puzzles: Body Cams Bring Oversight Questions for Tupelo Police, Daily Journal (Mar. 16, 2017)
- Jeff Amy, Mississippi to Begin Tracking Assets Seized by Police Groups, Associated Press (Mar. 15, 2017)
- C.J. Ciaramella, Mississippi Finally Brings Some Transparency to Asset Forfeiture, Reason (Mar. 14, 2017)
- Melissa Egan, On Your Side Investigation: Are you Being Tracked?, WDAM (Feb. 21, 2017)
- Beth Alexander, Lawmakers Consider Gas Chamber, Firing Squads, Electrocution as Execution Methods, WJTV (Feb. 10, 2017)
- Hiba Tahir, USM Student Stranded Overseas due to Executive Order, Student Printz (Feb. 2, 2017)
- C.J. Ciaramella, Inside Mississippi’s Asset Forfeiture Extortion Racket, Reason (Jan. 5, 2017)
- Mollie Bryant, Jailed Without Trial, Clarion Ledger (Oct. 29, 2016)
- Ryan Moore, Councilwoman Calls on ACLU Regarding Hattiesburg Police Surveillance, WDAM (Oct. 4, 2016)
- Elizabeth Rodil, ACLU and Local Civil Rights Lawyer Discuss MDOC's no Visitation Photograph Policy, Fox23 (Sep. 9, 2016)
- Christie Thompson, Mississippi Limits Prison Visits to Immediate Family, Marshall Project (Sep. 6, 2016)
- Tasneem Nashrulla, This Mississippi Prison Issued a Notice Forbidding Girlfriends, Fiancés, and Pastors to Visit Inmates, BuzzFeed News (Sep. 1, 2016)
- Karen Brown, U.S. Justice Department Closes the Books on Private Prisons, Miss. Pub. Broadcasting (Aug. 26, 2016)
- Caleb Bedillion, Black Leaders Urge Civilian Oversight of Police, Daily Journal (Jul. 17, 2016)
- Sierra Mannie, Kids, Cops and Community Policing, Jackson Free Press (Jul. 13, 2016)
- Alice Speri, Local Jails Profit from Warehousing State Prisoners, Intercept (Jun. 9, 2016)
- Matt Kessler, Why Did Mississippi Police Release Two Versions of Fatal Shooting Report?, Guardian (Feb. 9, 2016)
- Susan Ladika, Women and Children First, International Educator (Mar. 1, 2015)
Essays and Editorials
- Anti-Gang Act Would Be a Disaster for Mississippi, Jackson Free Press (Feb. 7, 2018)
- Jennifer Riley-Collins & Blake Feldman, Bryant Halted Criminal Justice Reform, Clarion Ledger (Apr. 28, 2017)
- 'Blue Lives Matter' Bills Ignore Reality, Clarion Ledger (Sep. 2, 2016)
- Black Lives Matter: Aspiration or Reality?, Daily Journal (Aug. 25, 2016)
- Police Reform is Past Due, Clarion Ledger (Aug. 19, 2016)
- Expected Civil Asset Forfeiture Task Force Should Make Transparency Top Priority, ACLU of Miss. (May 3, 2016)
- ACLU of MS: We Support Clergy for Prison Reform’s Platform, Jackson Free Press (Mar. 23, 2016)
- Engineered Injustice, Medium (Jan. 26, 2016)
- Video Needed in Law Enforcement Arrests, Clarion Ledger (Sep. 29, 2015)
- Current Wave of Criminal Justice Reform Ignores Indispensable Right to Counsel, Deep South Daily (Mar. 27, 2015)
- The Naive Notion that Mississippi has Comprehensively Reformed its Criminal Justice System, Deep South Daily (Dec. 30, 2014)
- Letter to the Editor, Marshall Project (Dec. 2, 2014)
- November 24, 2014: The Night Social Media Broke My Heart, Deep South Daily (Nov. 28, 2014)
- Unaccompanied, Underage, Undocumented, Unprotected: The Crisis for Teenage Boys at the Border, Deep South Daily (Sep. 7, 2014)
- Square One, Capitol Corner (Sep. 4, 2014)
- Oversimplifying Ferguson: The Problem is Bigger Than the Police, Deep South Daily (Aug. 27, 2014)
- Why Welfare Resentment Laws Will Only Expand Welfare, Deep South Daily (Aug. 21, 2014)
- Why Racial Injustice Persists in New York City, Mississippi, and Everywhere Between, Deep South Daily (Aug. 5, 2014)
- Criminal Justice Reform Needs Improvements, Hattiesburg American (Jul. 9, 2014)