Dec 18, 2020 The Mississippi State Parole Board is defending one of its members, a Meridian resident, after a state auditorâs 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.