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2 More Inmates Found Dead In Mississippi Prisons, Total Inmate Deaths Rise To 12
U. S. Embassy In Baghdad Hit By Rocket Fire
The United States Em- bassy in Baghdad was hit by rocket fire with at least one striking a dining facility, causing minor building dam- age and injuring one person on Sunday, the New York Times reports.
The attack prompted swift reprimand from the Iraqi government, who said that Iraqi forces had been tasked to “search and investigate to prevent such attacks” while also arresting those behind the rocket fire.
“We denounce the contin- uation of these outlawed ac- tions that have the goal of weakening the Iraqi state and violating its sovereignty and the sanctity of diplomatic missions on its soil,” Iraqi
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said in a statement.
No one has claimed re- sponsibility for the attack as of yet.
The attack comes after ris- ing tensions between the United States and Iran, par- ticularly after a separate rocket attack at a joint Iraqi- American base in Kirkuk left an Iraqi-American contractor dead, as well as the siege on the embassy which occurred in response to U.S. air raids that killed two dozen militia fighters on Sunday.
The ensuing retaliation led to escalating tensions be- tween Iran and the United States, which sparked fears of war.
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of 26-year-old Joshua Nor- man at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
The coroner said Norman was found hanging in his cell. Over the past month, 12 in- mates have died in custody of Mississippi prisons. Officials said many of them were at- tributed to violence but some died of suicide or natural causes.
Democratic lawmakers said Friday staff shortages and low pay have made that facility and others in the state
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dangerous for guards and in- mates amid years of under- funding and neglect.
The toilets full of waste plumbing torn out of the wall, you got people working in there," said Rep. Robert Johnson. “Women working two women to 128 people in prison. That’s not how you run anything.”
New Governor Tate Reeves has said restoring order in the state’s prisons is being taken very seriously by his administration.
U. S. Embassy in Baghdad
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - - Over the weekend two more in- mates died in prisons in Mis- sissippi bringing the total number of deaths in 2020 to 12.
Nine of those deaths hap- pened at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parch- man.
Those two recent deaths came this weekend and fol- low a rally Friday in Jackson to call attention to the condi- tions inside Mississippi pris- ons. New governor Tate Reeves has announced a na- tionwide search for a new di- rector to lead the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Officials with Management and Training Corporation, a Utah contractor that runs three prisons on behalf of the state of Mississippi said 38- year-old inmate Jermaine Tyler died in custody Satur- day night at the Marshall County Correctional Facility. A spokesperson said there were no signs of foul play.
Sunday morning the Sun- flower County, Mississippi coroner confirmed the death
GOP Group Taunts Donald Trump
By Driving ‘President Pence’
Billboard Truck Around D. C.
A conservative group said it is stepping up its advocacy for removing President Donald Trump from office with a new mobile billboard campaign.
Republicans for the Rule of Law has announced a truck emblazoned with the image of Vice President Mike Pence and the mes- sages “Remove Trump For Pence” and “Pence, It Could Be Worse” will be driven around Washington, D. C., for eight hours on Tuesday. The vehicle’s tour starts at 10 a.m. near the Capitol, where Trump is on trial in the Senate for his Ukraine misconduct.
“Removing President Trump from office wouldn’t undo the 2016 election. The same voters and electors who
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chose President Trump also chose Vice President Pence,” the anti-Trump group’s spokesperson Tim Miller said Tuesday in a statement to HuffPost, along- side a mocked-up image of the truck.
”That’s why we’re remind- ing Republicans that they should not fear a fair trial, be- cause even if Trump is re- moved that still leaves them with President Pence which is... not bad, I guess?” Miller added.
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