Hinds County supervisors boost long-underfunded public defender’s budget by $600K, marking one of the largest investments in the last decade

By Madeline Nguyen and Molly Minta | Originally published by Mississippi Today

Hinds County’s historically underpaid public defenders will earn more through September 2027 after an advocacy coalition urged supervisors for months that with better pay, public defenders can reduce the costly burden of the county’s deadly jail and dysfunctional criminal justice system. The $600,000 pay bump for the Hinds County Public Defender’s Office was rolled into the county’s new…

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