The Mississippi Department of Corrections will be moving some prisoners from privately owned prisons into a refurbished state-owned facility in December. Commissioner Burl Cain is using...
Story by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting A federal investigation into allegations of corruption at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility has led to the...
The Mississippi Department of Corrections is resuming prisoner transfers “in a limited, controlled and safe manner,” however visiting is still prohibited, according to an MDOC statement...
Story by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today Before Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Wednesday that he had appointed Burl Cain, the 77-year-old former warden of the notorious...
Hip-hop artists Jay-Z and Yo Gotti are financing a lawsuit on behalf of 152 incarcerated men at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The lawsuit, filed...
Story by Debbie Skipper and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center For Investigative Reporting A month after deadly riots, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has...
Gov. Tate Reeves toured the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Thursday to assess prison conditions and visited the shuttered facility at Walnut Grove on Wednesday. At...
Two more inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman have died as a result of prisoner violence, despite the prison being locked down since Dec....
Story by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center For Investigative Reporting Confronted by horrific conditions and in the wake of recent uprisings inside Mississippi’s prisons that have left...
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. has been tapped to lead the search for a new leader for Mississippi’s troubled Department of Corrections. Newly installed Mississippi Gov....
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