Mississippi capital revamping how it notifies next of kin about deaths with Justice Department help
JACKSON, Miss. — After men near Mississippi’s capital were buried in a pauper’s cemetery without their relatives’ knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city’s police revamp policies for performing next-of-kin death notifications. The intervention follows the discovery that seven men were buried in unmarked graves without their families’ knowledge. At least three of […]