Office of State Public Defender receives bump in budget
Not every race-relevant public-safety story is a siren-and-handcuffs headline. This budget move keeps agency capacity, rural lawyer shortages, and executive management inside the same public-safety lane candidates will eventually have to answer for statewide.
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Not every race-relevant public-safety story is a siren-and-handcuffs headline. This budget move keeps agency capacity, rural lawyer shortages, and executive management inside the same public-safety lane candidates will eventually have to answer for statewide. This page keeps the item on-site so readers, feed subscribers, and search engines can land on a clean Mississippi-race URL first, then jump out to the cited reporting instead of skipping straight past the desk.
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