Jackson Jambalaya

Finally. It is about damn time. It sure took them long enough. The Feds aren't going to play around Tater-Tot. You might want to re-think that decision to not properly fund MDOC.

Get ready to shell out the big bucks now. We're talking $50 million extra taxpayer dollars poured down the drain to rebuild parchman. Legislators should have enacted real reform when they had the chance.

Beats the hell out of trying to fix this debacle by ourselves. May end up with Federal Funding, or at the minimum, matching Funds. The last thing we need to do is open the flood gates of Home arrest for the wrong people (Criminally based, not race, to hopefully quell the slings and arrows of racist name calling).

Just let Shad do it

This is the only way it gets fixed. Same strategy Hinds County is using with its jail. Force the Feds to fix it and then claim it was out of our control when spending has to double. Tate and Gunn will never properly fund the state prisons...until a judge does it for them.

There goes the rainy day fund....the Feds will bleed the state dry with the costs of rebuilding the prison system, the timing is curious....seems like they waited for Phil to leave office, and now Phil is in the perfect position to be a consultant to the state to navigate the mess he left behind.

1) Decriminalize recreational cannabis and tax it.

2)Release all nonviolent offenders incarcerated for possession of cannabis

3)Earmark the pot tax to corrections infrastructure and MDOC pay raises.

Will our legislature and elected leaders have the courage?;&

LMAO This ain't Obama's Justice Dept. Reeves, Gunn and Hosemann are going to be provided every opportunity to resolve the problems w/o Federal mandates. Where do you get these comments KF? LMAO

Thanks Phil. You kind of suck. Your MDOC Commish is in jail, your DHS guy is going to jail, you’ve got the feds on us. At least you fixed things up with JPS.

It is a DISGRACE that Phil Bryant is not being held accountable for this mess. He was told one year into his first term as Governor that there were dire problems within the state’s prison system, everything from misuse of funds, theft, false contracts, bribery and a lack of federally mandated practices. He ignored all of it. BUT, oh yeah. He landed a tire plant. Appalling.

Shad would be a great Governor

I'm actually surprised we expected more from a two-term unqualified redneck. At least Cindy Hyde-Smith in Washington so she can't make decisions locally.

Take it easy you Shadites out there. He's all about the headlines with more show than go. A real momma's boy.

Another statistic that Phil and Tate own (Gunn has been blocked by Tate on most everything good for MS, so he gets a pass) is that from 12/18 to 12/19, MS is the ONLY state in the U.S. who's unemployment rate went UP!

Right off the bat they will advise to shit-can that silly list of candidate qualifications George came up with. Reeves is in way over his head but thank God, the coroner and the federal jailer Epps and Malone are out of the way.

Phil is taking the blame here for some truly criminal appointments, but Tate has been pulling the strings in the legislature for (at least) the last 4 years of Phil's reign.

And you morons elected him.

Mississippi will never be able to get out of its own way.

I understand that if the tenants of public housing destroy said public housing then it is a Civil Rights issue that they are living in dilapidated public housing.

I guess the same applies to inmates in a prison.

We really should've had the Irish pick the damn cotton.

It will be interesting to see who is hired to represent the state as this investigation gets underway. Every successful businessperson knows that you must have legal counsel as soon as possible after the announcement of an investigation. While this is a direct hit to your profit line, it is an expense you must incur. Your counsel can be instrumental in getting a solution before litigation is instituted thus saving many thousands of dollars in fees and out of pocket costs.Will Mississippi act prudently..face up to the fact that we have massive problems in the prison system and work out a plan that avoid litigation by the Federal Gov? I sure hope so but based on what I have seen of the Tater Tot I do not think he can make a decision that is not political b------t. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

SHAD FOR GOVERNOR 2024

5:07 PM
U my be correct and I’d wager...Tater Tot...WILL accept all Fed $ he can pull on
this deal...although he sure as hell hasn’t wanted to take much Fed $ in the past
on other projects.

All Tater needs to tell the feds is this: "I'm new to all this shit and I'm here to partner with you and do anything you recommend". He skates and obligates the state for $32 million. Phil is home free, Haley hasn't a clue and Dilbert pulls the Sergeant Schultz act. Speaker Gunn pretends to not know what month it is.

Missippi will survive.

Does Mississippi have a 'recall statute', and, if so, how the hell did we let Phil Bryant get away with all his shit-show-shenanigans for eight years without invoking it?

Does Mississippi have a 'recall statute' ...

That you don't seem to know says it all.