Fair Housing and Heirs’ Property Workshop
The City of D’Iberville and the Mississippi Center for Justice are hosting a Fair Housing and Heirs’ Property Workshop tonight. At this workshop, you can learn more about the Fair…
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Free Expungement Clinic in Jackson County
It’s Restoration Day here on the Gulf Coast and those with criminal records could soon be starting with a clean slate. The Mississippi Center for Justice hosted an expungement clinic…
Free expungement clinic in Harrison and Jackson counties
Restoration Day is here on the Coast and those with criminal records could soon be starting with a clean slate. The Mississippi Center for Justice is hosting expungement…
Mississippi Center for Justice hosting expungement clinic
A fresh start sounds nice right? That’s the goal of an upcoming expungement clinic in Jackson County. Ian Gustafson, an attorney with the Mississippi Center for Justice, is in…
Court: Mississippi can continue blocking felons from voting
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — People convicted of certain felonies in Mississippi still won’t be able to vote, as a lawsuit that sought to automatically reinstate their voting rights was struck down by a federal appeals court…
Project could help needy Mississippi families hold onto land
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A nonprofit law firm announced a new project Thursday to help low-income Mississippi families hold onto inherited land, an effort that advocates say would build wealth and preserve biological diversity by promoting…
Lawsuit filed against two MS prisons for inadequate practices to prevent COVID-19
Today, the Mississippi Center for Justice along with the Hogan Lovells Law Firm, Attorney Mark Whitburn of Austin, Texas, and the ACLU of Mississippi filed a class action lawsuit against Mississippi’s two largest prisons for taking inadequate steps to prevent…
Free legal clinic in Gulfport
Attorneys and staff members for the Mississippi Center for Justice hosted a free legal clinic at the Knight Nonprofit Center in Gulfport. The purpose of the clinic was for those who have served time for a crime, hoping to have…
Get Free Legal Help at the Knight Non Profit Center this Friday
Have you served time for a crime and hope to have the offense wiped off your record so you can land a good job? Or do you need help handling a foreclosure? If so, we have some good news for…
Anti-Discrimination Forum
House Bill 1523 and the removal of the Mississippi flag are just two of the hot topics discussed during an anti-discrimination forum in Biloxi this evening. The event served as the first of many stops around the state on the…
Mississippi Center for Justice on BP Oil Spill Recovery
Another local legal group has also been hard at work since the 2010 oil spill, the Mississippi Center for Justice.