Hinds County could lose off-site body storage

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Hinds County may soon end its six-year arrangement providing a temporary morgue space to handle a backlog of unclaimed bodies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in homicides. Robert Graham, president of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, said the