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The GNIS ID for the "building" is 707754. [2] Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km 2) of land, [3][4] Parchman is the only ...
Mississippi Prisons — green=state-operated, red==private (Hover mouse over pog to popup clickable link) The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) is a state agency of Mississippi that operates prisons. It has its headquarters in Jackson. [1] As of 2020 Burl Cain is the commissioner.
2000. Managed by. CoreCivic. Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility (TCCF) is a private prison for men, [1] authorized by the Tallahatchie County Correctional Authority and operated by CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The maximum-security facility is located in ...
Erik Ortiz. August 4, 2024 at 9:00 AM. Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at Mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay ...
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 ...
Department of Justice officials also noted that Mississippi has a disproportionate number of Black people incarcerated. Mississippi's prisons are 61% Black, while the statewide population of Black ...
Chris Epps. Christopher B. Epps (born January 25, 1961) is a federal inmate and a former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) and career employee in the state criminal justice system though he started his career as a teacher. Appointed as Commissioner in 2002 and serving until 2014, he served under three governors ...
More than 30 inmates graduated through a new program at the Mississippi State Penitentiary aimed at reducing the number of people returning to prison.