Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicides and suicides, officials say these prisons are different places. They pointed to the Mississippi State ...

The Oxford non-profit art organization, VOX PRESS, has released “Intersections: Seeking Self at Parchman Prison” by Sally ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Barnett ...

Escaped convicted murderer Nevin Whetstone was captured on March 7th in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Whetstone, 71, was serving a life sentence for capital murder at the Mississippi State ...

Yo Gotti and Jay-Z are continuing to fight for Mississippi prison inmates. According to court documents obtained by Complex, the rappers and Team ROC have procured legal representation for more than ...

*Attorney Antonio Moore delves into the question of why the Democrats are ignoring a discussion around mass incarceration and Mississippi #parchmanprison and a black agenda. Plus, having no major ...

Seventy-one-year-old Nevin Whetstone is back in custody three days after he escaped the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. After a statewide search that prompted a lockdown for schools in ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Betty Turner dreaded what her son would face in the state penitentiary in Parchman, the Mississippi Delta prison that has, over the course of more than a century, earned a dark and ...

THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS CURRENTLY SEARCHING FOR A CONVICTED MURDERER WHO ESCAPED PARCHMENT THIS MORNING. A JUDGE SENTENCED 71 YEAR OLD NEVIN WHETSTONE TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR ...

A convicted murderer and Parchman prison escapee is back in custody this morning. 54 year old, Larry Hentz, and his wife Elizabeth were arrested last night while trying to check into a hotel room in ...

Despite the investment in improving Parchman, state Sen. Juan Barnett, chairman of the Senate Corrections Committee, said he would still like to shut down Parchman and turn Tallahatchie County ...