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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 ...
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 ...
Inmates at a Mississippi prison were forced to mix raw cleaning chemicals without protective equipment, with one alleging she later contracted terminal cancer and was denied timely medical care, a ...
In the late 20th century, Mississippi began to make contracts with private prison management companies to build and operate prisons. It eventually held contracts for six for-profit prisons: Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, for inmates under 18 who had been convicted as adults; East Mississippi Correctional Facility, devoted to the treatment of state prisoners with mental illness ...
Authorities in Mississippi said Wednesday that a convicted killer has been recaptured a day after he escaped from prison. They had warned the public earlier that Drew Johnson, 33, could be ...
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.
In 1920, the state hospital was located in Jackson and had 1,670 residents. In 1930, it had 2,649 residents. [9] In 1935, the Mississippi State Insane Asylum moved from a complex of 19th-century buildings in northern Jackson to its current location, [7] the former property of a state penal colony, [6] the Rankin Farm. [9] MSH became overcrowded.
Drew Johnson is an inmate at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Mississippi. After escaping from the facility on Dec. 24, 2024, Johnson was captured on Dec. 25, 2024.