Gangs inside a Mississippi jail often determine whether other inmates receive meals, a court-appointed monitor testified in a federal court hearing. Elizabeth Simpson testified Tuesday that staffing shortages are so severe at Hinds County's Raymond Detention Center that gangs and “inmate committees” control certain aspects of life, including whether some inmates get to eat, WLBT-TV reported. A former administrator of the jail, Maj. Kathryn Bryan, learned staff would put food on carts to take to the jail's housing units and would let the inmates distribute it, Simpson said.
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Gangs control who eats at Mississippi jail, monitor says
