Ben Crump Calls For Federal Investigation After 215 Bodies Found In Unmarked Graves Near Mississippi Jail

Associated Press By Melissa Noel ·Updated January 16, 2024

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is calling for a federal investigation on behalf of the families of 215 people found buried in a pauper’s cemetery behind a jail near Jackson, Mississippi without their relatives’ knowledge.

Crump wants to know why officials failed to investigate these deaths and did not try to contact next of kin, rather than burying them in a

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