Unlike most US states, Mississippi does not consider animal cruelty as a felony.

Mississippi is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Mississippi.

Mississippi is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, including by nitrogen hypoxia and fire squad.

With some of the weakest gun laws in the country and a high percentage of household firearm ownership, Mississippi has the highest rate of gun related deaths in the nation.