Legislative proposals about prison health care follow investigative reports from Mississippi Today and other news outlets on ...

Kev’Veonta Short and Travis Thorn pleaded guilty last week in separate cases in federal court of conspiracy to commit wire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Becky Currie, R- Brookhaven, during a hearing at the Mississippi State Capitol, in 2020. Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today ...

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

A Louisiana man pled guilty in federal court to conspiring with another individual to fraudulently obtain unemployment ...

Mississippi officials didn’t install many of the cameras at Parchman until after 2020, so in many cases, there was no way to prove who was responsible for a death, he said. Anyone who witnessed a ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its prisons, as well as deaths where causes were ruled as “undetermined,” following an ...

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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Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, shackled and drifting in and out of consciousness. “Cut it off,” he remembered ...

JACKSON, MS - In a critical breakthrough for equal treatment of prisoners with HIV, Mississippi's top prison official today announced that educational and vocational programs will soon be available to ...

At least 42 people have been killed in Mississippi prisons over the past decade due to systemic issues. An investigation found that chronic understaffing, gang violence, and lax oversight contribute ...