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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe |Minyvonne Burke
May 24, 2025, 6:02 AM EDTThe path to freedom began behind a toilet. After midnight on May 16, inmates at the New Orleans city jail forced open the door of a first-floor cell and crammed inside. At the back, inmates had wrenched a metal bathroom fixture from the wall, exposing a narrow hole where steel bars were sawed off. On the other side was a walkway leading to a loading dock. The timing was perfect.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe
JACKSON, Miss. — Sinatra Jordan stepped out the glass doors of the Raymond Detention Center and headed toward his father’s waiting car. It had been 940 days, and he wasn’t going to linger. Jordan, 32, was dressed in the same blue T-shirt and dark denim shorts he’d been wearing since he was brought to the jail on Aug. 15, 2022, accused of starting a car chase and firing at police. Jordan insisted that he did not have a weapon.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Jon Schuppe
JACKSON, Miss. — Sinatra Jordan stepped out the glass doors of the Raymond Detention Center and headed toward his father’s waiting car. It had been 940 days, and he wasn’t going to linger. Jordan, 32, was dressed in the same blue T-shirt and dark denim shorts he’d been wearing when he was brought to the jail on Aug. 15, 2022, accused of starting a car chase and firing at police. Jordan insisted that he did not have a weapon.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Appalled Texas lawmakers called for a crackdown on the corpse trade Wednesday after they heard stories of unclaimed bodies’ being cut up and used for profit by medical schools, private brokers and health care companies.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe
Two Mississippi Capitol Police officers have been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a young father during a 2022 traffic stop, part of a string of shootings by officers in an aggressive push to stamp out spiking crime in Jackson. A grand jury in Hinds County indicted the officers, Michael Rhinewalt and Stephen Frederick, last month. Rhinewalt is on unpaid administrative leave; Frederick resigned from the Capitol Police in March 2023 after adrunken driving arrest.
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