Tech companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to build new data centers. These centers are the backbone behind AI and are being built across the country – including two record-setting $10 billion dollar projects in Mississippi. But while billions being invested in communities might sound great, our economic mobility reporter Stephan Bisaha reports they create few permanent jobs.
A new collection of essays, art and poetry by men incarcerated at the Mississippi State Penitentiary — best known as Parchman Farm — is shedding light on one of the country's most notorious prison units. It's the culmination of a more than three year effort that began shortly after the most violent period in Parchman's history. Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Michael McEwen has that story.
And Louisiana has carried out its first-ever nitrogen gas execution — the second state to use that method to put someone to death, after Alabama. Our criminal justice reporter Kat Stromquist reports the execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr. is the state's first in 15 years.
This week’s Gulf States Gem: the meatloaf at Ajax Diner in Oxford, Mississippi.
This episode is hosted and written by Stephan Bisaha. The podcast was produced by Danny McArthur, Kat Stromquist, Orlando Flores Jr. and Tyler Taboada Pratt. Joseph King is the social producer. Nellie Beckett is our audience engagement producer. Our theme music is by DJ Supreme.
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