In honor of Black History Month, a diverse group of around 30 people gathered in a circle at the Natchez Museum of African ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday ...

A nonprofit organization with a goal of teaching state inmates writing skills has released a book of art and writing by men ...

Parchman rodeos, prayer, reentry: Burl Cain's plan to salvage Mississippi's troubled prisons In addition to studying how religion impacts people inside prisons, it hopes to apply some of what is ...

Under Mississippi’s earthy and antiquated penal system, the tougher and more ruthless a convict is, the better off he is. At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as ...

They pointed to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which has long been regarded as one ... These basic safety failures and the poor living conditions inside the facilities promote ...

Gov. Phil Bryant on Saturday said via Twitter that he has directed "the use of all necessary assets and personnel" to find the two inmates who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. More than half of its committee members voted to table the bill, ...

William Ferris writes I was never sure how or why I was allowed into Parchmans Camp B and I never asked Set apart from the main complex of Parchman ... the town of Lambert Mississippi On my ...