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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 ...
More than 30 inmates graduated through a new program at the Mississippi State Penitentiary aimed at reducing the number of people returning to prison.
The Marshall County Correctional Facility is one of three private prisons operated on behalf of the state as of March 2017. In November 2014, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps resigned a day before he was indicted by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on corruption charges for bribery and taking kickbacks. Commissioner since 2002 ...
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.
Mississippi's corrections head wants to turn a shuttered state prison into a drug and alcohol treatment center for inmates, including intense therapy.
Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a ...
In the late 20th century, Mississippi began to make contracts with private prison management companies to build and operate prisons. It eventually held contracts for six for-profit prisons: Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, for inmates under 18 who had been convicted as adults; East Mississippi Correctional Facility, devoted to the treatment of state prisoners with mental illness ...
A Utah-based private prison company has returned $5.1 million to the Mississippi Department of Corrections after an investigation found it failed to provide enough workers at prisons it was ...