The issue of death notifications — or lack thereof — by the Jackson Police Department has made national headlines in recent months after multiple families said the department never reached out to them ...

A Mississippi coroner’s office under fire for burying people in pauper’s graves without their families’ knowledge has released a policy on death notifications that is unsigned and undated, making it ...

ATLANTA — In a bipartisan push for federal prison reform, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff announced the introduction of a new bill related to how families are notified when a loved one is ill, injured or dies ...

The Justice Department said Thursday it would help authorities in Mississippi improve their death notification procedures, an attempt to correct systemic failures uncovered by NBC News that resulted ...

ONE TO USE THE GREEN SPACE IN THE PARK. ROSS ADAMS 16 WAPT NEWS NEW TODAY... THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS STEPPING IN TO HELP JACKSON POLICE AND THE HINDS COUNTY CORONER'S OFFICE IN NOTIFYING NEXT OF KIN ...

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have adopted a policy outlining how officers notify families when a loved one has died. These guidelines are common in American law enforcement, but Jackson did not ...

Since NBC News started documenting botched death notifications in Hinds County last fall, the families of seven men have said they were not told of their loved ones’ burials. This article is part of ...

When a veteran dies, the federal system begins a tightly scripted sequence of notifications, record reviews, benefits processing, and decisions about remains and burial. Every step relies on one ...