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Pontotoc County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,184. [1] Its county seat is Pontotoc. [2] It was created on February 9, 1836, from lands ceded to the United States under the Chickasaw Cession.
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 ...
James Lamar Roberts Jr. (born June 8, 1945) [1] is an American retired jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1992 to 1999. [2]Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Roberts received a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1971, [3] and served as the prosecuting attorney for Pontotoc County, Mississippi from 1972 to 1983.
Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.”
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 ...
A former employee of a Mississippi jail has been arrested and charged in the June escape of Joshua Zimmerman, an inmate who fled to Chicago and was captured there last week after a 15-hour ...
East Mississippi is the state's main "special needs" facility (for inmates with disabilities and/or severe mental illness). [39] Marshall County Correctional Facility (MCCF)- Operated by GEO Group until June 2012; now under 10-yr contract to MTC. Wilkinson County Correctional Center (WCCC) - Operated by CCA through early 2013; since 2013 by MTC.
Aug. 17—TUPELO — A Union County man is being held without bond, accusing of robbing a gas station, kidnapping the clerk and stealing their car Wednesday afternoon. Tupelo police responded Aug ...