Two years into a continuing research study at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, a new film offers a glimpse ...

Mississippi’s private contract for prison medical services has come under growing scrutiny this year as complaints mount ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons.The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its ...

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Mississippi’s appeals court on Tuesday reversed its previous decision to let stand an erroneous sentence that kept a man ...

At least five people who were from out of state or outside the county have died in the past 1 1/2 years inside the ...

During a routine prison shift change at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, the deadly attack unfolding on Unit Charlie 2’s security monitors went unnoticed. When a new crew ...

A Mississippi Prison Murder Indictment Was Forgotten for 3 Years — Until a Reporter Called John Lowe was beaten to death in a prison shower in 2021, but the murder suspect was not served the ...

From medical neglect to suicide, the lack of information on jail deaths can allow the same deadly problems to lead to more deaths.  Amid the 2020 pandemic, Andrew Jones suffered a series of crises.