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Jamelle Bouie: Twelve deaths in Mississippi prisons tell a grim story

(Rogelio V. Solis | AP) Many attendees of a rally at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, carried signs that protested conditions in prisons where inmates have been killed in violent clashes in recent weeks, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. They called upon the administration to specifically close the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where a number of deaths have occurred.