Harrison County Sheriff Matt Haley has confirmed an investigation is underway into the death of a female juvenile at the Harrison County jail. Haley said the 16-year-old female, who was arrested on an armed robbery charge, in D'Iberville was found…
An autopsy is expected tomorrow to determine how a Jackson County inmate died. In the meantime, the Jackson County Coroner’s Office is looking for the Mobile man’s relatives so they can…
A grand jury finds no criminal conduct in the death of a Hancock County inmate that happened in July 2020. According to the report, Lauren…
An inmate serving 20 years for statutory rape and sexual battery has died in a prison hospital. The State Department of Corrections says Thursday that an autopsy will be done on 74-year-old Tommy Lee Jones. He was pronounced dead Wednesday…
A Mississippi man convicted of child exploitation has died after being taken from a prison to a Jackson hospital. Sixty-three year-old Vernon Williams was pronounced dead Saturday at Merit Health Central. Williams pleaded guilty to child exploitation…
The Mississippi State Department of Corrections says autopsies will be done on two inmates who died during the past week. Quintez Hodges was pronounced dead Saturday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. He was sentenced to death in September…
The head of Mississippi’s prison system says he has started an internal investigation into the death of an inmate. Ronald Frederick Apgar died Friday at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. He was 39-years-old. Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain says…
The State Department of Corrections announced an inmate has died at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The department said 39-year-old Ronald Frederick Apgar III was pronounced dead Friday. He was serving 12 years for grand larceny and false…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An inmate from South Mississippi Correctional Institution has died. The state Department of Corrections says 61-year-old Timothy W. Walters was pronounced dead Tuesday at Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg. He was serving a life sentence after pleading guilty…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An inmate has died after being found unresponsive at East Mississippi Correctional Facility. The private company that runs the prison says medical workers did CPR on 35-year-old Gary Long after he was found Monday. He was…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary died has died in the prison’s hospital, and an autopsy will be done. The state Department of Corrections said in a news release Friday that Anthony Bell, 64, was…
JACKSON, Miss. (WCBI)- Two inmates from different prisons have died in separate Jackson hospitals. Mississippi Department of Corrections says 66-year-old Charles Bates died Friday at Merit Health Central. 44-year-old Thaddeus Antwon Scales died Thursday night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Bates was serving a 27-year sentence in Rankin County for child pornography and […]
JACKSON, MISS. (WCBI) – An inmate convicted of manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon dies in prison. Mississippi Department of Corrections says 47-year-old Krysta Lesherri Chewe died Sunday at Merit Health Central in Jackson. MDOC says Chewe had already been hospitalized there once this year. Chewe was sentenced in December of […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections says autopsies have been set for two inmates who died in custody in the last week. Albert Smith, a 69-year-old inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County, was…
Mississippi Department of Corrections said 64-year-old Charles E. Wilson died at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Sunday night.
Mississippi Department of Corrections said 50-year-old Scott William Deters most likely died from natural causes.
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV) — Early Saturday morning, a Mississippi Department of Corrections inmate housed in the George County Regional Correctional Facility, died at George Regional Hospital due to complications from COVID-19. The 48-year-old inmate was admitted to the hospital…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An autopsy will be done on a Mississippi inmate who died after being hospitalized several days. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said in a news release Monday that 42-year-old Brandon Flowers was pronounced dead Sunday at…
The Mississippi Department of Corrections says it is investigating the death of a 32-year-old inmate. Nathaniel Taylor was in the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville. He was taken by ambulance Wednesday to the Greene County Hospital and was pronounced…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections says it is investigating the death of a 32-year-old inmate. Nathaniel Bryan Taylor was in the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville. He taken by ambulance Wednesday to the Greene County…
A 64-year-old Mississippi inmate who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction has died after being hospitalized since May. Bobby Neil McFalls died at the State Penitentiary at Parchman. McFalls was at least the 51st Mississippi inmate to…
An autopsy will be done on an inmate who died at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The State Department of Corrections says 55-year-old Craig Brown was found unresponsive in his bed Wednesday. Efforts to resuscitate him were not successful. The department…
The Mississippi Department of Corrections says an autopsy is in order for an inmate who died in a Jackson hospital. The inmate, identified as 58-year-old Herman David Wiley, was taken to the hospital from a correctional facility in Rankin County.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An inmate died Tuesday in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where he had been living since August with a terminal illness. The state Department of Corrections says 47-year-old Timmy Terrell Harden was…