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Adams County Correctional Center (ACCC) is a medium security prison for men located in unincorporated Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez, [1] It is owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. [2] After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 Hobo Fork Road Adams Correctional Center opened July 2009.
Nov. 9—RITZVILLE — Adams County Sheriff Dale Wagner spoke with the Adams County Commissioners during Tuesday's regular meeting to discuss the Adams County jail's staffing and maintenance issues.
In May 2012 a riot at CCA-operated Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi resulted in the death of a Corrections Officer and injury to sixteen staff members and three prisoners. Twenty-five employees were held hostage during the disturbance.
The county seat is Natchez. [2] The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is named for the second President of the United States, John Adams, who held that office when the county was organized in 1799. Adams County is part of the Natchez micropolitan area which consists of Adams County, Mississippi ...
DeSoto County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Justin Smith said Tuesday night that multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Service, have been searching for Smith since he fled.
Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz) is the only city in and the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.The population was 14,520 at the 2020 census. [3] Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia, Louisiana, Natchez was a prominent city in the antebellum years, a center of cotton planters and Mississippi River trade.
Inmates were allowed to be visited every Sunday for two hours by their wives. In 1962, each Parchman camp, with the exception of the maximum-security camps, housed a five to ten-room structure called a red house; each house is near the main gate of the main camp building. [170] In the house, the inmate and his wife may engage in sexual intercourse.
In 1966, the House Un-American Activities Committee published the names of Natchez residents who were current or former members of the Klan, including more than 70 employees at the International Paper plant in the city, as well as members of the Natchez police and the Adams County Sheriff's departments. [56]