A reform bill that would set up an oversight committee to review each prison death comes after a joint news investigation by ...

Incarcerated women are being moved from the state’s designated women’s prison in central Mississippi to a formerly decommissioned prison in the Delta more than a hundred miles away. Nearly 300 women ...

The logo of the Mississippi Department of Corrections is shown on the shirt of a corrections officer, May 9, 2023, at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. automation Conditions at ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in the opposite direction. Much of the nationwide ...

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 ...

In the wake of Mississippi Today reports of an amputation from a neglected broken bone, untreated hepatitis C and delayed cancer diagnoses, Rep. Becky Currie will try again in the coming legislative ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review unprosecuted homicides and undetermined deaths in its prisons since 2015. A collaborative news investigation found at least 43 homicides in state ...