As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in ...

In the wake of Mississippi Today reports of an amputation from a neglected broken bone, untreated hepatitis C and delayed ...

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 ...

On Monday, May 16, Chris Epps, commissioner of Mississippi’s department of corrections, sat at a long conference table, grasping a mound of financial documents. He was preparing to head to the state’s ...

Inmates at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility were routinely exposed to dangerous chemicals and denied timely treatment, a federal lawsuit alleges. Susan Balfour, a 62-year-old former ...

A pair of brothers in Mississippi are finally walking free after serving more time in prison than they should have.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve was captured Wednesday, according to a Mississippi Department of Corrections post on Facebook.Drew Johnson was ...

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 ...