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Old Greyhound Bus Station (Jackson, Mississippi) U. Union Station (Meridian, Mississippi) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:40 (UTC). Text is ...
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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]
Greyhound and other lines with service in Chicago are part of a web of routes that allow passengers to travel between several thousand stops with a single bus ticket.
A trailer in a parking lot became the new Greyhound stop, with limited seating inside, two restrooms and no food. It’s open 12:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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.
Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km 2) of land, [3] [4] Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, and is the state's oldest prison. [3] [4] [2] Begun with four stockades in 1901, the Mississippi Department of Corrections facility was constructed largely by state prisoners. It has beds for 4,840 inmates ...
The Mississippi state prison hospital remained at Oakley. On July 21, 1913 a fire swept through the Oakley Prison Farm and killed thirty-five black prisoners. In 1925, after two white prison camps in the Mississippi penal system faced overcrowding, the state of Mississippi moved seventy-five white prisoners between the ages of 14 and 21 to the ...