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

4, 2020 shows inmates David May, 42, and Dillion Williams, 27. They were discovered missing about 1:45 a.m. Saturday from the state penitentiary at Parchman, Miss. May was convicted of aggravated ...

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 ...

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 ...

The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to inmates at Mississippi prisons. The legislation is ...

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 ...

At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as “shooter trusties,” equipped with rifles and vertical stripes, and set to guarding their lesser, not so enterprising ...