A nonprofit organization with a goal of teaching state inmates writing skills has released a book of art and writing by men ...

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

Another Mississippi Sunday Morning was recorded in the course of a single day at Parchman Farm, the vast Mississippi State Penitentiary. It is performed entirely by twelve inmates of the jail, men ...

After becoming governor, Tate Reeves vowed to clean up Mississippi’s prisons and provide for inmates’ safety. By Jan. 27, 2020, he ordered prison officials to shut down Unit 29. Parchman’s inmates ...

VOX PRESS unveils a powerful anthology of writings from incarcerated individuals at Mississippi’s most infamous prison unit, ...

What caused the riots? How Mississippi prison inmates live, die in Parchman State institutions were rife with riots sparked by gang warfare and protests over the appalling conditions prisoners ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at ...

“Moving the inmates seven miles up the road is not ... the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, the South Mississippi Correctional ...

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.

Barnett said. The bill would have phased out Parchman's inmate population and employees to another prison while keeping death row, the hospital and some other services at Parchman. Committee ...