Civil rights attorney Ben Crump issued a clarion call for justice on behalf of the relatives, friends, and close associates of 215 people buried in the pauper’s cemetery behind the Hinds County jail in Raymond without notification of their relatives and close associates.
On Wednesday, December 28, the Hinds County Coroner released the full list of
672 bodies buried in the Pauper’s Field covering the years 2008-2023. Documents obtained by
NBC News presented a list of 215 burials between the years 2016-2023 where no notification
was given to the decedents’ families. The name, age, race, birth and death dates were included
for all 672 listed in the coroner’s records. In many cases, burials were consigned to Pauper’s
Field because the families could not pay the costs of burial services
In one case the story looks really shady.
Dexter Wade was run over and killed by a Jackson Police officer,
He had I.D. on him, with his and his mothers addresses.
She reported him missing the day after he was killed.
She was not notified.
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