Jackson County inmate pronounced dead
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…
Inmate Death
Grand jury finds no criminal conduct in Hancock County inmate death
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…
Mississippi Inmate Death
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…
Mississippi inmate death
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…
Two inmates die in Mississippi prisons
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…
Internal investigation underway after inmate death at Central MS Correctional Center
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…
Inmate death at Central MS Correctional Facility
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…
Inmate at South Mississippi Correctional Institution dies
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…
Three Mississippi inmates die; One was in privately run prison
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…
Inmate dies in hospital at Mississippi’s Parchman prison
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…
2 Mississippi inmates die in separate Jackson hospitals
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 […]
47-year-old inmate convicted of manslaughter dies in Jackson
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 […]
Autopsies set after 2 central Mississippi inmates die
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…
Inmate serving life for kidnapping and rape dies in Mississippi prison
Mississippi Department of Corrections said 64-year-old Charles E. Wilson died at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility Sunday night.
Inmate at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility dies in prison
Mississippi Department of Corrections said 50-year-old Scott William Deters most likely died from natural causes.
Inmate dies at George County jail due to complications of COVID-19
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…
Mississippi inmate dies after days in hospital; autopsy set
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…
Mississippi Department of Corrections investigating inmate death
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…
Authorities investigating inmate death at South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville
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…
Mississippi inmate dies after being hospitalized since May
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…
50th inmate death in Mississippi
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…
Autopsy to be done for deceased inmate
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.…
Inmate with long illness dies in Parchman prison; 40th Mississippi inmate to die since December
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…
Inmate dies at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman; 39th inmate death in a state prison since December
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An inmate was pronounced dead Monday in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, the state Department of Corrections said in a news release. Robert Floyd McGuire, 56, was taken to the hospital after…