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Hinds County Board of Supervisors President Robert Graham leaned over the wooden barrier dividing the courtroom from the sparse audience inside the federal courthouse in downtown Jackson.
“This is a waste of time,” Graham said of Tuesday’s hearing about the troubled Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond.
Technical difficulties with a projector had just led U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to pause the proceedings. Reeves had been in the midst of unpacking a thorny dispute over the jail’s budget between his appointed receiver, Maryland-based public safety consultant Wendell France Sr., and Hinds County…