Jerry Sanders in a videoconference from the Rankin County jail in Brandon, Miss., where he’s been held on low-level drug possession charges since March 2017. (Photo: AP)
A recent survey of Mississippi jails conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law and released to The Associated Press shows that 2,500 defendants—more than one-third of all of those jailed before trial—have been in jail 90 or more consecutive days. More than 600 have been in jail longer than a year.
April 24, 2018 at 01:13 PM
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Jerry Sanders has been sitting in a jail cell on a relatively minor charge of methamphetamine possession for more than a year—longer than the sentence he could get if he’s convicted. And with no money to post bail or hire his own lawyer, he may be sitting there for weeks or months more.
“I miss my children, I miss my woman, I miss my dog, I miss my job, I miss my home—everything,” Sanders, 58, said recently by videoconference from inside the Rankin County jail in Brandon.
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