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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.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, at three different crime ...
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 ...
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 ...
The minimum/medium-security prison facility has an authorized capacity of 1,076 and is on 17 acres (6.9 ha) of enclosed area. The prison property has a total of 47 acres (19 ha). [3] The Marshall County Correctional Facility is one of three private prisons operated on behalf of the state as of March 2017.
A nationwide prison gang leader operating in Mississippi prisons has been sentenced to 20 years for a racketeering conspiracy conviction. ... Dillon Heffker, 33, of New Orleans, to 35 years on the ...
In June 2003 the prison received 1,423 inmates from Alabama, and the prison hired 250 employees during that year to care for them. [9] In May 2004 36 prisoners were moved from the Guadalupe County Adult Detention Center in Seguin, Texas to TCCF; they had been identified as gang leaders. Twenty-four were shipped on one day, with the remaining 12 ...
Before parts of Unit 29 were closed following a spate of inmate deaths and rioting in 2020, it held up to 1,500 prisoners, including death row inmates; the entire prison currently houses about ...