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The laws on the books in Mississippi also provide the death penalty for aircraft hijacking under Title 97, Chapter 25, Section 55 of the Mississippi Code, but in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy v. Louisiana, that the death penalty is unconstitutional when applied to non-homicidal crimes against the person. However, the ruling ...
Changes in sentencing laws dramatically increased the prison population. In 1995 the state legislature passed a law requiring all prisoners to serve 85% of their sentence. The prison population more than doubled from 1995 to 2007, from 11,250 to 22,800, far outstripping capacity of the three state prisons. [7]
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people convicted of felonies in Mississippi is cruel and unusual punishment.. The court, in 2023, had ...
The state of Mississippi can continue denying people previously convicted of certain felonies the right to vote, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mississippi prison is short of 50 guards, says sheriff Thursday 27 April 2023 22:14 , Graeme Massie Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones says that the Raymond Detention Center is massively understaffed.
On April 25, the Clarion Ledger newspaper received five videos plus two photos taken by a Marshall County inmate's phone. They showed a smoke-filled prison with soot high on the walls. According to the inmate, "If not for the fire sprinkler going off, I can assure you every inmate on the zone of delta 4 in Marshall county correctional facility ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Mississippi" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .