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State parks privatization: Lawmakers say more research needed, pause legislation

Icina Lee spends her lunch break jogging across the levee at Tombigbee State Park. A sweeping bill in the state Senate that would have turned control of Tombigbee State Park over to the Lee County Board of Supervisors was paused by the state Senate, Monday. THOMAS WELLS | BUY at PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM Lawmakers have paused legislation to privatize some Mississippi state parks and give others away to local governments, saying they need to conduct more research. The Senate Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Committee instead passed a bill Monday to create a legislative study committee – five members appointed by Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, five by House Speaker Philip Gunn – that would research how best to fix Mississippi’s beleaguered parks system. The legislation now heads to the full Senate for consideration.

Senate bill would privatize some Mississippi state parks, give others away

JACKSON • A Northeast Mississippi lawmaker has introduced a sweeping proposal to privatize at least 10 Mississippi state parks and offload several others to cities and counties.

No-show prison workers cost Mississippi taxpayers millions

No-show prison workers cost Mississippi taxpayers millions By Joseph Neff and Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project © Andrea Morales for The Marshall Project A prisoner shattered Darrell Adams’ eye socket, cheek and jaw in a beating in April 2019. Adams has since left his job at Marshall County Correctional Facility. When Darrell Adams showed up for an overnight shift at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in rural Mississippi, he was one of six officers guarding about 1,000 prisoners. Adams said he thought that was normal; only half-a-dozen guards had been turning up each night during the three months he’d worked at the prison, which is run by Management & Training Corporation. He didn’t know the state’s contract with MTC required at least 19 officers.