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 ...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed into law a bill that bans biological males from entering women’s spaces in the state’s prisons and jails. The legislation, dubbed the Dignity and Safety for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chapel was dedicated with a sermon by Rev. Fred Luter, the first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the third prison chapel to open in Mississippi, with two ...

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 ...