Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.
Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.
In the wake of Mississippi Today reports of an amputation from a neglected broken bone, untreated hepatitis C and delayed ...
As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in ...
Lately, the Mississippi prison system has been doing a lot to challenge my assumption that HBO’s Oz was a complete work of fiction. The sheer violence and harsh living conditions inmates suffer alone ...
JACKSON, Miss. – The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Mississippi prison system after a string of inmate deaths in the last few months. Federal prosecutors announced ...
Each week it feels like yet another story comes out about a prisoner being killed in a Mississippi prison. Hopefully,tonight’s news means that meaningful change is on the way. Suggested Reading Ex-NFL ...
Mississippi’s private contract for prison medical services has come under growing scrutiny this year as complaints mount about care and oversight. The allegations are nothing new. Mississippi has ...
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