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Agents arrested a Mississippi probation officer Wednesday on two counts of embezzlement — another example of corruption within the Department of Corrections.

Officer arrest is latest example of alleged broad corruption within Mississippi corrections
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 10:30 AM, 110 Reads
In a state where residents owe half-a-billion dollars to criminal courts, at least two people on probation or parole in Forrest County were trying to pay down their fines and fees each month.

But their debts didn’t budge. The money never showed up in their accounts at the courthouse.
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Darlene Smith pushes her 9-month-old son Martez on a swing at Freedom Ridges park in Ridgeland on Saturday, September 18, 2021. Smith, a single mom, hasn't had child care since the state pushed her off the Child Care Payment Program, which offers assistance to low-income working parents, earlier this year. Credit: Anna Wolfe/Mississippi Today

Thousands of Mississippi parents lost child care assistance during pandemic as state hoards federal relief
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon, 09/20/2021 - 12:00 PM, 332 Reads
A supervisor called Darlene Smith at her work-from-home office one afternoon this summer, wondering why she’d taken her 30-minute lunch break 30 minutes early.

She was changing her 6-month-old’s diaper and tending to her rambunctious 6-year-old.
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Audit: 5.5% of Mississippi’s unemployment payouts in 2020 were improper
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue, 06/22/2021 - 02:00 PM, 653 Reads
The prior year, before the pandemic and when the labor office issued just $59.6 million, just 3% of payments were improper.

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Elee Reeves, wife of Governor Tate Reeves, at the grand opening of the newest MDHS Resource and Referral Center in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

This office used to be a front for alleged welfare fraud. Now it’s a child care resource center.
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu, 06/17/2021 - 10:48 AM, 410 Reads
Standing between two large, plastic trunks — faux branches and leaves crowding the ceiling of a former hotel-turned-government-office — Mississippi welfare officials announced the opening of a new child care resource center.
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