Featured Cigarette tax may rise to $1.50
A pack of cigarettes in a Mississippi gas station costs around $5.00, but legislators are looking at a bill that would increase the taxes on cigarettes...
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Southern Miss goes 100% tobacco free
by Alex Paton
The University of Southern Mississippi has received a grant from the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation to advocate for, adopt, and implement a...
Shanks, Smokes, Cell Phones Found in “Massive” State Prison Shakedowns
by kim
PHOTOS: Dept. of Corrections PARCHMAN, Miss.–Prisoners in Mississippi have had access to many different kinds of items they are not supposed to have, some of...
Keeping Contraband Out of Prisons: Four Prisons to Use Dogs
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–You hear about it a lot: cell phones, drugs, tobacco, smuggled in to prisoners in all kinds of clever ways (perhaps some of the...