Black Enterprise
by Jameelah Mullen
January 6, 2024
Some 215 bodies were found in a pauper’s cemetery behind a prison in Hinds County, Mississippi. The gravesite is intended for people who have no known family, but relatives of the deceases say they were never contacted by officials.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the families of Marrio Moore, Dexter Wade, and Jonathan Hankins, who were all buried in the cemetery without the knowledge of their families.
“It’s like they just threw him out like trash, just like they did with the others,” Gretchen Hankins, the mother of Jonathan Hankins, told Fox affiliate WBLT.
Activist Arthur Reed, who works with Crump, recently visited the gravesite. The deceased are put in body bags and placed into shallow graves Reed told Fox 26.