A Mississippi county jail system must continue facing a consent decree with the Justice Department for violent and unconstitutional conditions but will have some of the edict relaxed, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
Hinds County, Mississippi’s board of supervisors were unable to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that a lower court should’ve terminated its consent decree with the US Department of Justice, according to an opinion. But one aspect of the decree was overly broad and the district court abused its discretion when it gave an appointed receiver the power to determine the ...
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