Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of ...

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

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 ...

Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.

JACKSON, Miss. — On the witness stand and under pressure, Frank Shaw, the warden of the East Mississippi Correctional Facility, could not guarantee that the prison was capable of performing its most ...

At least 42 people have been killed in Mississippi prisons over the past decade due to systemic issues. An investigation found that chronic understaffing, gang violence, and lax oversight contribute ...

Text messages and a video from a prisoner inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary have raised questions about a homicide there during a 2020 gang war. During the war, Denorris Howell was strangled ...

A recent audit of the Mississippi prison system’s spending revealed that the state’s Department of Corrections spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on some pretty fancy shit. The staff reportedly ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Betty Turner dreaded what her son would face in the state penitentiary in Parchman, the Mississippi Delta prison that has, over the course of more than a century, earned a dark and ...

Continuing their ongoing efforts towards social justice and prison reform, this week Jay-Z, Yo Gotti, and Team ROC have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 227 Mississippi inmates addressing the ...