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 ...
On Monday, May 16, Chris Epps, commissioner of Mississippi’s department of corrections, sat at a long conference table, grasping a mound of financial documents. He was preparing to head to the state’s ...
A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve was captured Wednesday, according to a Mississippi Department of Corrections post on Facebook.Drew Johnson was ...
Mississippi prison officials are not doing enough to protect incarcerated people in their care, federal investigators said, and living conditions are unsanitary and unsafe. The U.S. Department of ...
Dec. 25 (UPI) --Convicted murderer Drew Johnson is back in prison on Christmas Day after briefly escaping a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve. Johnson, 33, was captured near the South ...
Inmates at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility were routinely exposed to dangerous chemicals and denied timely treatment, a federal lawsuit alleges. Susan Balfour, a 62-year-old former ...
Every year, thousands of people die in prisons, jails and law enforcement custody.