Site icon MageeNews.com

Mississippi’s Public Safety & Justice System Challenges

Sue Honea

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - MAY 25, 2016: Mississippi State Capitol at twilight with the Monument to Women of the Confederacy dating from 1917.

Please note that this post contains affiliate links and any sales made through such links will reward MageeNews.com a small commission – at no extra cost to you.

Empower Mississippi was recently featured in several news outlets as the conservative voice on criminal justice improvements. In this week’s Roundup, you can read what our experts have to say about Mississippi’s public safety and justice system challenges.

Additionally, summertime brings planning for our team as we look ahead to the 2024 legislative session.  Our team is growing and with that growth comes new opportunities!
Empower’s Senior VP Wil Ervin shared his thoughts on the state of public safety and incarceration in Mississippi. Check out his op-ed in Magnolia Tribune and the Northside Sun’s editorial review of the piece.

Also, Mississippi’s full expensing law gained national attention in The National Review.  Read more below.👇

Crime may be a problem, but over incarceration is not the solution
Mississippi has a crime problem.

Conservatives in the state are rightly concerned about it. FBI data showed a 66% increase in Mississippi’s homicide rate from 2017 to 2020, though other sources suggest the number of homicides in 2023, specifically in Jackson, may be on the decline.

The conversation about criminal justice in Mississippi should begin and end with public
safety, and it is clear that current policies are not adequately addressing the problem.
Read More

Editorial: Crime and punishment
“If incarceration was the answer to improving public safety, Mississippi should be the safest place in the world to live,” Ervin observed.

Although Mississippi is spending up to $400 million a year on corrections, the costs of locking up people can involve more than money.
Read More

Empower-backed tax reform hailed as a model for the nation
A tax reform championed by Empower Mississippi and signed into law in March will help address the state’s economic needs, writes Michael Lucci. Other states should take note. 

In a recent (paywalled) National Review article, Michael Lucci praised the work of Mississippi lawmakers to pass a law creating full expensing for capital investments in research, experimentation, machinery, and equipment in the state. Lucci, a visiting economic fellow at the State Policy Network and the former vice president of state projects for the Tax Foundation, encouraged other states to follow Mississippi’s lead in enacting this impactful tax reform.
Read More

A Tale of two governors

Empowering Parents: State of Urgency or State of Emergency?
Is it the best of times, or the worst of times?

Depending on your state of residence, current efforts to empower parents with more education options may be considered the best of times or the worst of times.

As efforts to give parents and students more education options continue across the country, two governors have taken radically different approaches to their state’s efforts to empower parents.

 

 

MageeNews.com is an online news website covering Simpson and surrounding counties as well as the State of Mississippi.

Exit mobile version