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GRADUATION SPOTLIGHT: Whitehead Falls Down, Gets Back Up to Graduate

May 1, 2024

By LaTunya Evans, Communications Specialist 

LaPatrick Whitehead understands better than most how quickly one wrong decision can change a person's life. 

In April 2021, Whitehead found himself in a six-by-eight-foot jail cell instead of the comfort of his dormitory.  

Whitehead was incarcerated for six months in the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (Rankin County), but he refused to...