Measures to improve prison health care access and create stronger safeguards against the denial of care in Mississippi ...

The winter storm that pushed through the state Saturday and Sunday temporarily knocked out power at the Mississippi State ...

This article is second in a series of a reporting collaboration by The Marshall Project - Jackson, Mississippi Today, Clarion Ledger, Hattiesburg American and The Mississippi Link. At least 42 people ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections quietly entered into an agreement with a powerful law firm last summer to monitor ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its prisons, as well as deaths where causes were ruled as “undetermined,” following an ...

Gangs, violence and sexual assaults are a problem in three Mississippi prisons because the facilities are short-staffed and inmates are sometimes left unsupervised, the U.S. Department of Justice said ...

Mississippi’s private contract for prison medical services has come under growing scrutiny this year as complaints mount about care and oversight. The allegations are nothing new. Mississippi has ...

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 ...

Another Mississippi inmate has died in a troubled state prison. State corrections officials said the death Wednesday appeared to be a suicide by hanging. At least 10 inmates have died in the state's ...

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This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. An investigation by The Marshall Project - Jackson and local reporting partners found that understaffing and ...

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 ...