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No Box for Justice: Inside Mississippi’s Broken Prison Grievance System

/ October 23, 2025

The Call That Said Everything When I dialed the Mississippi Department of Corrections commissioner’s office, I expected professionalism, maybe even urgency. What I got instead was a bureaucratic echo chamber. “This is the commissioner’s office,” the woman said.I explained the problem — a constitutional one — about inmates at Delta Correctional Facility being denied access […]

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BREAKING: Federal Government Seeks Gag Order To Silence Journalist Who Exposed Their Surveillance

/ October 15, 2025

U.S. Marshals Want Court to Ban Reporter from Discussing His Own Arrest After He Discovered BOLO Alert Targeting His Journalism Lafayette, Louisiana — In a stunning escalation of what civil liberties advocates are calling “government retaliation against the press,” federal prosecutors are asking a court to prohibit journalist Matthew Reardon from discussing evidence in his own

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Left Without Counsel, Left Without Argument: How Mississippi’s Courts Compounded Injustice in a Case the State Refuses to Defend

/ September 11, 2025

Despite a Supreme Court order, Lafayette County refused to rule on an indigent appellant’s request for counsel. Months later, the State failed to file a brief — and the Court of Appeals denied oral argument, leaving only silence on the record.

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State Trooper Assaults Journalist Outside Mississippi Governor’s Mansion in Viral Standoff

/ July 6, 2025

JACKSON, MS- On the eve of Independence Day, a shocking display of First Amendment suppression unfolded outside the Mississippi Governor’s Mansion. Independent journalist and constitutional rights activist Matthew Reardon, widely known by his alias Don Matthews, was physically assaulted, threatened with arrest, and aggressively chased off a public sidewalk by a Mississippi State Trooper while

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EXCLUSIVE: Oxford Eagle Exposed for Biased Reporting, False Narratives, and Ethical Evasion

/ July 2, 2025

By Matthew Reardon, Journalist & Civil Rights Advocate Oxford, Mississippi — In a chilling display of selective journalism, The Oxford Eagle—a local paper once tasked with informing the public—has revealed itself to be nothing more than a propagandist mouthpiece for power, influence, and institutional control. Despite ample evidence of gross civil rights violations and the

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MISSISSIPPI COURT CLERK REFUSES SERVICE AND DOCUMENTS FOR APPEAL OVER EMAIL ADDRESS

/ April 22, 2025

Oxford, MS – April 22, 2025 — In a stunning and unapologetic act of censorship, Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Jeff Busby has refused to respond to a lawful request for court documents from a journalist whom also is the subject of an appeal in the MS Supreme Court. All of this because he disapproved of

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