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October 15, 2015

No Surprise Here: BSBJ out spending opponents on promoting #Initiative42 on TV

Group for Miss. ed funding prop outspends opponents on TV Supporters of a Mississippi school funding proposal are spending three times more on TV commercials, so far, than opponents. Figures released Thursday show Better Schools, Better Jobs has spent $536,910 for television spots. Improve Mississippi Political Initiative Committee has spent $174,780. WLOX 10/15/15
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 15, 2015

MITCHELL: Mississippi prison population sees fastest decline in nation

CHARLIE MITCHELL: Mississippi is No. 1 in declining prison population Mississippi’s inmate population has dropped by 3,000 people over the past several months — by far the fastest decline of any state. The rationale, though, is that prisons cost too much money. It is a remarkable and largely unheralded change. Long the leader in incarceration…