Reluctance to expand parole may have led Mississippi legislators to unwittingly sabotage an effort to save state money by shifting some incarcerated people’s healthcare costs to Medicaid.
by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today March 31, 2022 The state’s prisons are overcrowded, and hundreds of prisoners are sick and elderly– the consequence of harsh mandatory sentencing laws that have led to large numbers of people growing old in prison for the first time in American history.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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