A key Mississippi lawmaker has passed a major hurdle on a bill that calls for tougher oversight of deaths inside the state’s ...

Incarcerated people and advocates reported scarce food and water, interrupted access to medical care, and the inability to ...

A second inmate has died inside the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility in under a month.

A Bennington man who was convicted in 2019 of repeated sexual assault of a child and other related charges was recently found unresponsive in a Mississippi jail cell.

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A Mississippi man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for setting fire to a meetinghouse belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2024. Stefan Rowold, 37, was sentenced on ...

A plaque outside the former home of civil rights leader Medgar Evers will no longer label his Signal Mountain, Tennessee ...

Alvin Jardine spent more than a third of his life in prison for a rape he did not commit. After his release, he spent another ...

A bill introduced in early 2026 would've authorized executions by suffocation via nitrogen gas.

A new division at the Harris County Jail seeks to improve medical care inside the state's largest pre-trial detention lockup.