Jury awards $250,000 to US woman jailed without seeing a judge

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By JEFF AMY | AP

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Thu, 2019-03-21 04:59

JACKSON, Mississippi: A Mississippi jury awarded $250,000 in damages Tuesday to a woman jailed 96 days without seeing a judge, a case spotlighting how Mississippi still struggles to provide access to lawyers or bail to people jailed before trial.

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