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Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region.
A bill making its way through the Mississippi Senate could shutter the state's 123-year-old penitentiary at Parchman by 2028. Senate Bill 2353, written by Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, passed ...
The maximum-security, mostly-men’s jail has been a source of constant controversy and countless lawsuits over inmate living conditions.
The method of controlling and working inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was designed in 1901 to replace convict leasing. The case Gates v. Collier ended the flagrant abuse of inmates under the trusty system and other prison abuses that had continued essentially unchanged since the building of the Mississippi State ...
The state government purchased land in Sunflower County in January 1901, where it developed the Parchman Farm (now Mississippi State Penitentiary). [5] The prison properties were largely self-sufficient, raising their own crops and livestock, as well as commodity crops such as cotton for the state to sell. All the labor was by prisoners.
Mississippi began installing air conditioning in some units at Parchman, but not all of them, including Unit 29, because funding ran out, said Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain.
Prison labor under the trusty system. Gates v. Collier, 501 F.2d 1291 (5th Cir. 1974), [1] was a landmark decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that brought an end to the trusty system as well as flagrant inmate abuse at Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain was warden at Angola, which like Parchman, is a maximum-security facility with a long history of violence and poor living conditions.