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Inmate killed at Mississippi State Penitentiary overnight
WREG articles via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – An inmate was killed early Thursday morning at the Mississippi State...
Mississippi executes man in rape, killing of 16-year-old girl amid scrutiny of death penalty
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi executed a man who raped and killed a 16-year-old girl, bucking a trend...
MDOC offers salary raises, increases benefits in effort to hire more prison officers
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Mississippi Department of Corrections is seeking to hire more officers with a 10% increase in...
Convicted Mississippi murderer, rapist Thomas 'Eddie' Loden executed by lethal injection
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPARCHMAN -- At 6 p.m., the curtain rose in Room 54 of Building 17 at the Mississippi State...
Broken Justice: Mississippi prisons may soon exceed capacity
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMississippi — the world’s leader in imprisoning people — will soon skyrocket past its capacity to...
3 Mississippi prisons violate civil rights with violent, unacceptable conditions, the DOJ says
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 months agoMississippi prison officials are not doing enough to protect incarcerated people in their care,...
'Foolishly sticking with failed system': Mississippi leads the world in mass incarceration
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMississippi is now the world’s leader in putting people behind bars — more inmates per capita than...
Can religious programs change prison environments? Pepperdine studies Parchman for answers
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoA yearslong study of Parchman and other Mississippi prisons will help Pepperdine Univeristy research...
Mississippi executes man for rape, murder of teen girl
Associated Press via AOL· 1 year agoThomas Edwin Loden Jr., 58, had been on death row since 2001. (Mississippi Department of Corrections...
Jay-Z-funded lawsuits end as Mississippi improves Parchman prison
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAttorneys hired by Jay-Z and other entertainers have ended two lawsuits they filed on behalf of...