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As of September 1, 2008, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, with a capacity of 3,665, had 3,610 prisoners, making up a total of 25.07% of people within the Mississippi Department of Corrections-operated prisons, county jails, and community work centers. [14]
After ending the convict leasing system, the State of Mississippi began to acquire property to build prisons. The state bought the Rankin Farm in 1895 in Rankin County, 12 miles (19 km) from Jackson; it is now the site of the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.
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 ...
Mississippi's largest county is no longer using a section of its jail that has been plagued by fights, escapes and other security problems. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said Monday that 200 ...
Susan Balfour, 62, was incarcerated for 33 years at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility until her release in December 2021. Mississippi inmates were exposed to dangerous chemicals and denied ...
Fugitive Dylan Arrington confirmed dead in Leake County house fire after allegedly shooting dead Pastor Anthony Watts who stopped to try to help him
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 intense July 16 incident between police officers and sheriff’s deputies didn’t come out of nowhere – in fact, there were three other known disagreements before.