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

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

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 ...

A key Mississippi lawmaker has passed a major hurdle on a bill that calls for tougher oversight of deaths inside the state’s notorious prisons, following an investigation by The Marshall Project - ...

It was a Tidal wave of momentum. The health care provider for Mississippi’s state prison system is terminating its contract with the corrections facilities, the Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported.

The Mississippi House passed several bills this week aimed at improving the quality of medical care in Mississippi prisons and developing stronger oversight of health care delivery.

A Department of Justice investigation into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm found unsafe and inhumane conditions at the prison have violated the U.S. Constitution. The DOJ released ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi prison ...

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