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Old Greyhound Bus Station in 2018. Located within the southeast boundary of the Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District, the building was acquired by architect Robert Parker Adams in 1988; his firm restored the station's exterior and interior. [4] The state of Mississippi has placed an explanatory marker at the site. [5]
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Parchman roadsign The original superintendent's residence at Mississippi State Penitentiary. For much of the 19th century after the American Civil War, the state of Mississippi used a convict lease system for its prisoners; lessees paid fees to the state and were responsible for feeding, clothing and housing prisoners who worked for them as laborers.
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.
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Before parts of Unit 29 were closed following a spate of inmate deaths and rioting in 2020, it held up to 1,500 prisoners, including death row inmates; the entire prison currently houses about ...
English: A front view of the Greyhound Bus Station, located at 219 N. Lamar St., Jackson Mississippi. Monocrome source photo was taken December 22, 1939. Cropped and contrast-enhanced from an archival photo in the collection of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and already placed in the Wikimedia Commons at "Greyhound_Bus_Station,_December_22,_1939._(8758711973).jpg"
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