JANS – Alongside partners the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Public Welfare Foundation, Just Trust, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and FWD.us, the Foundation for the Mid South announces the expansion of the Mississippi Justice Fund, a groundbreaking project to stand up Mississippi’s justice reform movement.  By partnering with the Mississippi Justice Fund (MJF), FMS aims to strengthen the efforts of grassroots groups successfully engaged in neighborhood violence prevention, disrupting the evolving door of incarceration and linking changes in the criminal system to Mississippi’s economic development. “Justice reform is a win for public safety and a win for economic growth,” said Greg Johnson, CEO and President of the Foundation for the Mid South. “Our role in joining Mississippi Justice Funders underscores our belief in the power of people on-the-ground to be real change agents in alleviating the conditions that feed the school-to-prison pipeline and stymy billions from entering Mississippi’s economy.”