Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicides and suicides, officials say these prisons are different places. They pointed to the Mississippi State ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brian Dakss is a longtime New York-based editor and writer for CBS News, at the Radio network and with CBSNews.com. He has written and edited for NBC News, Dow Jones and numerous radio stations and ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Betty Turner dreaded what her son would face in the state penitentiary in Parchman, the Mississippi Delta prison that has, over the course of more than a century, earned a dark and ...

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 ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. During a routine prison shift change at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, the deadly ...

The man, who had been serving a life sentence, broke out of the state’s newest prison on Christmas Eve, officials said. By Adeel Hassan A man convicted of murder who escaped from prison in Mississippi ...

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 ...