Lowndes changes time on early release
The Lowndes County School District is changing the time of their early release Wednesday, effective immediately.
‘Clerical error’ almost led to prisoner’s early release
An inmate will remain behind bars after a Mississippi Department of Corrections mistake almost released him to house arrest.
In August, the MDOC parole board granted John Murphy early release and sentenced him to house arrest, even though he was not eligible for action because he had been convicted as a habitual offender.
Federal prisons urged to grant more early releases
For humanitarian and economic reasons, the federal Bureau of Prisons should grant more early releases to incapacitated and terminally ill prisoners, two advocacy groups say in a report depicting current policies as sometimes “cruel as well as senseless.”
Inmates released early to save state money
Former crematorium owner Mark Seepe is out of prison after serving less than two years of a ten-year sentence for personal use of advance funeral payments.
Voice of the people: Elizabeth Simpson
In “State puts CMSD early-release plans in jeopardy,” June 19 headline, if assumptions were holes in Swiss cheese, then the article was full of them.
Our view: Apology accepted, but please move on
It was never the motive, but the method.
On Tuesday, Columbus Schools Superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell issued a press release that dealt with the controversial early-release program.
Apologetic Liddell backs off plan for early-release
After considerable blow-back from her first major action as the Columbus Municipal School District’s new superintendent, Dr. Martha Liddell reversed course Tuesday on a plan to dismiss students early on Wednesdays to allow time for teacher training and development.
Our view: How will CMSD respond to likely demise of early-release programs?
The Mississippi Department of Education has decided to put an end to the early-release programs that some of the state’s school districts have employed. The State Board of Education made its ruling last week. Friday, they announced there would be a 25-day period in which residents can state their view on the matter.
State puts CMSD early-release plans in jeopardy
The Columbus Municipal School District’s early dismissal plan, if implemented, may meet an early demise due to state board of education concerns over policy inconsistencies in other districts.
Columbus schools implement early release Wednesdays; Policy adopted after community leaves meeting
In a flip-flop motion, the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees Monday killed a motion to approve superintendent Dr. Martha Liddell’s 2012/2013 school calendar, which thereby killed Liddell’s proposal for an early release program. The motion died on the table without a second from a board member. But immediately after an executive session, board member Aubra Turner made a motion on the school calendar and it passed on a 3-1-1 vote.