This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. Text messages and a video from a prisoner inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary have raised questions about ...
An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Barnett ...
A collaborative investigation found that out of 42 homicides in Mississippi prisons over the past decade, only six resulted in convictions. Denorris Howell was strangled to death at the Mississippi ...