As of June 30, there were 287 people in jail in Hinds County, Mississippi who had not been indicted, The Marshall Project found. That amounted to nearly half of those who had been in jail for at least 30 days. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/30/h...
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The next district attorney in in Hinds County, Mississippi will face a backlog of hundreds of people who have been arrested by police but are stuck in local jails without formal charges. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/30/h...
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As of June 30, there were 287 people in jail in Hinds County, Mississippi who had not been indicted, The Marshall Project found. That amounted to nearly half of those who had been in jail for at least 30 days.
An unusual collaboration between prosecutors and public defenders to release unindicted jail detainees exposed deeper failures in Hinds County’s criminal justice system.
The next district attorney in in Hinds County, Mississippi will face a backlog of hundreds of people who have been arrested by police but are stuck in local jails without formal charges.
The five candidates for Hinds County DA address The Marshall Project’s findings that hundreds of people have been jailed for months without formal charges.
