Tennessee man sentenced for using drone to fly marijuana into federal prison in Mississippi
A Tennessee man was sentenced on Wednesday, January 8 to two months in prison for providing marijuana to an inmate of a ...
Mississippi man found guilty of killing Pensacola man over botched drug drop
Dewitt Echols fatally shot James Johnson in 2021 after the man was unknowingly part of a law enforcement controlled drug ...
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Have Mississippi’s prisons turned a corner on their gruesome past?
Gov. Reeves said Louisiana's infamous Angola prison under Burl Cain went from "beatings to Bible studies." What has he done ...
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Parchman closure back up for consideration in Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee
Sen. Juan Barnett, the committee’s chairman, said the prison is unsafe for staff and inmates after years of underfunding and ...
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Violence on the decline in MS prisons, but some say "inhumane" conditions still exist
The Mississippi Department of Corrections is hoping to stave off litigation from the Justice Department, which concluded in a 60-page report that these two state prisons, along with the private prison ...
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Convicted murderer recaptured after escaping Mississippi prison on Christmas Eve
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 ...
Manhunt for "desperate" murderer who escaped from Mississippi prison, authorities say
Authorities in Mississippi are searching for Drew Johnson, a convicted killer they say escaped from prison who they say is ...