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The Clemens Unit, a prison farm in Brazoria County, Texas The Cummins Unit, a prison farm in Lincoln County, Arkansas. This type of penal institution has mainly been implanted in rural regions of vast countries. For example, the following passage describes the prison system of the U.S. state of North Carolina in the early twentieth century:
By 1906, the state sent the healthy, young black males incarcerated in the Mississippi penal system to MSP and to the Belmont Farm. Other population groups in the Mississippi penal system went to other farms; White men went to the Rankin Farm in Rankin County, and all women went to the Oakley Farm in Hinds County. [12]
The state bought the Rankin Farm in 1895 in Rankin County, 12 miles (19 km) from Jackson; it is now the site of the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. Later the state purchased the Oakley Farm, located in Hinds County, 25 miles (40 km) from Jackson. [2]
The unclaimed dead of Hinds County, Mississippi, are buried along a dirt road on the grounds of a jail work farm, their graves marked with just a metal rod and a number.
Hinds County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. With its county seats (Raymond and the state's capital, Jackson), Hinds is the most populous county in Mississippi with a 2020 census population of 227,742 residents. [1] Hinds County is a central part of the Jackson metropolitan statistical area. It is a professional ...
On March 31, the coroner’s office asked the Hinds County Board of Supervisors for permission to bury Moran in a pauper’s field on the grounds of the county jail’s work farm, records show.
Scrutiny of burials near the Hinds County Penal Farm in Raymond, Mississippi, accelerated after the August discovery of Dexter Wade’s body. ... A wallet found in the jeans Wade was buried in ...
As of January 1, 2025, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the United States, including 46 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions , appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations , or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [ 2 ]