The Mississippi Department of Corrections quietly entered into an agreement with a powerful law firm last summer to monitor ...

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.

The winter storm that pushed through the state Saturday and Sunday temporarily knocked out power at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and Delta Correctional Facility in Greenwood, even as ...

Dozens of people have died in Mississippi prisons over the past 10 years and few people in charge of overseeing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New York Times editorial sheds light on the allegations behind a lawsuit that’s just the latest in a series of challenges to what plaintiffs say are horrendous conditions in Mississippi prisons. And ...

The logo of the Mississippi Department of Corrections is shown on the shirt of a corrections officer, May 9, 2023, at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. automation Conditions at ...

One of two prisoners believed to have escaped from one of several Mississippi prisons recently rocked by violence is back in custody, authorities said early Sunday. The Mississippi Department of ...