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

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his scheduled ...

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 ...

Lately, the Mississippi prison system has been doing a lot to challenge my assumption that HBO’s Oz was a complete work of fiction. The sheer violence and harsh living conditions inmates suffer alone ...

A Department of Justice investigation into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm found unsafe and inhumane conditions at the prison have violated the U.S. Constitution. The DOJ released ...

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 ...

But over the last week, such worries have come to feel almost trifling, as Mississippi’s state prisons have exploded with gang warfare, riots, disorder and killing. Five inmates have died, three of ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (WDAM) - Convicted killer Richard Gerald Jordan was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. The 79-year-old Jordan, a Hattiesburg native ...