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Loretta Pierre

Anita Krecic

Loretta Pierre

ms5 Zine Collection

Based on oral history by interview with Linda Ross recorded on September 11, 2023

Linda’s Zine by MS5 zine team

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Based on an oral history interview with Anita Krecic recorded on September 4, 2023.

Anita’s Zine by MS5 zine team

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Based on an oral history interview with Anita Krecic recorded on September 2023

Loretta’s Zine by MS5 zine team

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Lisa’s Zine by the MS5 Team

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INTERVIEWS

Interview: Loretta Pierre and The Fight for Parole by Kite Line

The Mississippi Five are the last remaining women sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after ten years, before Mississippi virtually abolished parole in 1995. Although they have been parole-eligible for three decades, the state has routinely denied their release without reasonable justification. They have been imprisoned for over 175 years and denied parole 47 times collectively. Today we will hear from one of the group, Loretta Pierre, who has been denied parole 14 times, more than any other woman in the state’s history.

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Free the Mississippi Five feat. Garrett Felber

Garrett Felber joins Kim for a conversation about the campaign to Free the Mississippi Five. Garrett Felber (he/they) is an educator, organizer, and writer. They organize with Study and Struggle and the committee to Free the Mississippi Five, are the author of the forthcoming biography, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre (AK Press, 2025), and recently founded the Free Society People's Library, a radical mobile library in Portland, Oregon.

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News & Press

**Five** Mississippi women serving 175 Years, with 47 parole denials

Christopher Blackwell and Loretta Pierre

Woman Sues Mississippi Parole Board for Discrimination and Retaliation

Anthony Accurso

Interviews

Free the Mississippi Five feat. Garrett Felber

**Some imprisoned in Mississippi remain jailed long after parole eligibility**

Pauline Rogers, of RECH, speaks during the Mississippi Mass Incarceration Rally in Brandon, Monday, July 30, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today, Report For America

Mina Corpuz

Prisons Grow in Mississippi as State Officials Cut Parole

Women incarcerated at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis)

Victoria Law

Is Mississippi’s Parole System Broken

Former chairman of the Mississippi Parole Board Steve Pickett (Eric J. Shelton for Mississippi Today)

Mina Corpuz