Judge Reeves Schedules Hearing Tuesday on Holding Hinds County in Contempt for Jail Conditions
On Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, Hinds County responded to the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi Carlton W. Reeves’ Nov. 23 request to convince the court not to find it in contempt for its handling of the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond in the wake of the 2016 U.S. Department of Justice consent decree with the county.
In last month’s order, Reeves mentioned the county’s continued violations of the consent decree and a 2020 stipulated order. Two days after the county’s response, Reeves scheduled a status conference on Zoom for Dec. 21 to set a date for hearings on the matter.
Reeves had requested a response from the county within 21 days of his November order, contending that it has not made good progress on the jail’s unsafe conditions since 2016.
“[T]hey have no end in sight, in fact,” Reeves wrote. “And the County’s failure to remedy the conditions has caused ‘needless suffering and death,’ (with) six deaths so far this year.”
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