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| Parole urged for elderly, bedridden Mississippi inmates |
| By gulflive.com |
| Published: 11/16/2015 |
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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi should make elderly, ailing inmates eligible for parole, says the Memphis-based Operation Help Civil Rights Group. "We are not asking you to let these people out; we are demanding that you let these people out or we are going to raise hell in this city," said the group's head, Wendol Lee. "If we don't see some change in two months, we will come back and protest." He said such inmates are bedridden and don't pose threats, and keeping them in prison deprives them of needed medical attention and costs taxpayers money. "We are talking about people who have been in there 30, 40, 50, 60 years, sentenced back in the '60s," Lee said at a news conference Friday. "They are dry rotting in there." Lee said he has met state Parole Board Chairman Steve Pickett and other members of the board and they have pledged to work together to see what can be done to release elderly, sick inmates. Read More. |
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