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As of September 1, 2008, South Mississippi Correctional Institution, with a capacity of 3,204, had 3,106 prisoners, making up a total of 21.57% of people within the Mississippi Department of Corrections-operated prisons, county jails, and community work centers. [9]
The state Department of Corrections was established in 1976 to oversee the existing Mississippi state prisons. [6] Both federal and state laws were passed during various campaigns of "wars on crime" and "wars on drugs;" not only were new behaviors criminalized, but politicians supported mandatory sentencing and lengthier sentences.
The convicted murderer broke out of South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville on Tuesday around 3:30 p.m., according to an alert from the Greene County Emergency Management office ...
Aerial view of Mississippi State Penitentiary, February 21, 1992 – United States Geological Survey. Mississippi State Penitentiary is in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, Mississippi. [50] The prison which occupies 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of land, has 53 buildings with a total of 922,966 square feet (85,746.3 m 2) of space. As of ...
Drew Johnson is an inmate at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Mississippi. After escaping from the facility on Dec. 24, 2024, Johnson was captured on Dec. 25, 2024.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections said Johnson was captured "in an area near the South Mississippi Correctional Institution (SMCI), where he escaped on Tuesday afternoon." SMCI is located ...
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OXFORD, Miss. — A leader of a nationwide prison gang operating in the Mississippi prisons was sentenced Thursday to 20 years behind bars for a racketeering conspiracy conviction, federal ...