MacArthur Justice Students Inspect Mississippi’s Death Row

Participants in the MacArthur Justice Clinic recently inspected Mississippi’s Death Row and conducted interviews of Death Row inmates at the State Penitentiary in Parchman. The visit was part of the Clinic’s ongoing monitoring of Mississippi’s compliance with a 2015 settlement negotiated by the Clinic on behalf of inmate Devin Bennett concerning the conditions of Death Row.

“This is a unique opportunity for our students,” said Cliff Johnson, director of the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law. “Very few people are permitted on Death Row, and there are lawyers who have been handling death penalty litigation for their entire careers who have never been allowed to see the cells where the clients spend 23 hours per day. I could not have been more proud of the professionalism, seriousness, and kindness with which our students undertook this important task.”

In addition to inspecting Death Row and interviewing inmates, Clinic students visited the gravesite of Civil Rights Movement hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

Pictured left to right: Cate Rodgers, Jasmyne Meeks, Ashley Brown, Joe Bonica, Morgan Stringer, Fredricka Brown, Professor Cliff Johnson, Blake Brookshire, and Jasmine Williams.

Learn more about the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Courtesy of the University of Mississippi Law School

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