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On Wednesday, a group of prison reform advocates gathered virtually to speak out against the death penalty in Mississippi.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Gov. Tate Reeves won’t decide on Richard Gerald Jordan’s request for clemency until after the U.S.
The man who was convicted of killing two women in Mississippi before leading authorities on a nationwide manhunt was found ...
Calls for prison reform are rising after a spike in violence in correctional facilities in Mississippi. In the last 10 days, five inmates were killed in different state prisons. Three inmates were ...
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal investigation into prison conditions following riots in January 2020 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman determined the Mississippi Department of ...
An inmate is missing from the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman after five prisoners were killed and several others injured this week across the state’s corrections system.
He's due for release in 2022. "If he gets to come home alive," she says. Her son was in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman when deadly riots broke out at the end of last year – the ...
All state prisons statewide remained locked down Friday, confining inmates to cells and blocking visitors. Besides Howell, Terrandance Dobbins, 40, was killed Sunday at South Mississippi.
On the other end was an inmate inside Unit 29 of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. “Hello,” he said. Then, in a steady voice that competed against a cacophony of rowdy ...
Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, has become as much a historical landmark as it is a penitentiary. It’s about 30 miles from where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, and ...
PARCHMAN, Miss. – The attack on Jennifer White came as she started a morning shift at the most dangerous unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the sprawling Delta prison farm here.
PARCHMAN, Miss. — Nine big men sit attentively at their desks inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary—the once infamous prison labor colony known as Parchman Farm. They're wearing green-and ...