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Registered Nurse Shalotta Sharp leads a sexual assault examination training for nurses at St. Dominic in Jackson, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America

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Sexual assault nurses asked the AG’s office if Plan B is legal. They never got a response.
By ISABELLE TAFT - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,09/14/22-10:40AM , 364 Reads 12,612 Statewide
Mississippi nurses who take care of sexual assault victims are worried that the state’s abortion ban could force them to stop offering emergency contraception – and they’re not getting any answers from the state’s chief legal officer.
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An average of 25 mentally ill Mississippians wait in jail for hospital bed each day, report finds
By ISABELLE TAFT - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,09/08/22-12:00PM , 255 Reads 5,938 Statewide
The wife of a man who sometimes experiences crises related to his bipolar disorder feels he has been “subjected to treatment that should not happen in a civilized society.”
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Postpartum women never lost Medicaid coverage during the pandemic. But the state told them they did.
By ISABELLE TAFT - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,09/07/22-9:00AM , 1,067 Reads 24,086 Statewide
Thanks to misleading letters sent by the Mississippi Division of Medicaid in recent years, tens of thousands of new moms may have chosen to forgo health care after giving birth – even as the federal government was sending Mississippi extra money to help pay for their care during the pandemic.
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James E. Hughes, father of Corey Maurice Hughes, poses for a portrait near his home in the Palmers Crossing community in Hattiesburg, Miss., Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Corey was shot and killed by a Forrest County Sheriff's deputy, as deputies attempted to transport him to a mental health facility. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Deputies were supposed to take him to the hospital. They killed him instead.
By ISABELLE TAFT - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,09/01/22-10:28AM , 693 Reads 37,116 Statewide
Mental health and law enforcement are intertwined in a little-known legal practice called civil or involuntary commitment. James Hughes believes his son would still be alive if the process for commitment involved more mental health professionals.
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