This Week at Justice - March 1, 2024
#ThisWeekatJustice
• Justice Department Implemented Groundbreaking Executive Order Addressing National Security Risks and Data Security
• Family Dollar Stores LLC Pleaded Guilty to Holding Consumer Products under Insanitary Conditions, Agrees to Pay $41.675 Million in Connection with Rodent-Infested Warehouse
• Justice Department Finds Conditions at Three Mississippi Prisons Violate the Constitution
• Man Pleaded Guilty to Making Threat to Michigan Election Worker
• Four Individuals Plead Guilty to Bid Rigging and Price Fixing in Ongoing Investigation of Oklahoma Transportation Construction Contractors
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we are here today to announce that the
Department of Justice has made findings
following a thorough investigation
regarding conditions at three
Mississippi state prisons the central
Mississippi Correctional Facility the
south Mississippi Correctional
institution and the Wilkinson County
Correctional Facility our investigation
uncovered chronic systemic deficiencies
that create and perpetuate violent and
unsafe environments for people
incarcerated at these three facilities
specifically we found that these
facilities violate the constitutional
rights of people incarcerated there in
two principal
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