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Dec 18, 2020 The Mississippi State Parole Board is defending one of its members, a Meridian resident, after a state auditor’s report said she was reimbursed more than $47,000 for travel expenses that are not meant to be reimbursable. The Office of the State Auditor said in a report released on Thursday that Mississippi Parole Board member Betty Lou Jones was reimbursed $47,321 for travel expenses that are not reimbursable. Jones This finding is part of a larger report which documents widespread misspending by the Mississippi Department of Corrections from July 1, 2017 to Dec. 31, 2019.  Logan Reeves, a spokesperson for the auditor s office, said the report states that there are audit findings of illegal expenditures that made their way to Jones, but that does not mean that those expenditures are criminal.

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