RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)-Three Mississippi Department of Corrections officers are now behind bars after smuggling contraband into a Mississippi prison. Sherry McCollum, Kiarra Michael, and Theresa Hasty…
One local group on the Gulf Coast is looking for donations of hygiene items and clothing. The King's Kitchen says the Mississippi Department of Corrections is giving items to men…
A 37-year-old Biloxi man, already in state prison on a 40-year-sentence on sex crimes, pleaded guilty to federal sex crime charges. Quincy LaBauve was sentenced in Harrison County in 2018 to one count of sexual battery and two counts of…
A Moss Point will spend more than 17 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking case. Labaron Mitchell, 38, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport to 211 months, or 17 years. He will serve…
The inmate who escaped from a Mississippi prison for the second time has been recaptured in Harrison County, the Department of Corrections posted to its social media site. Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said in a press release that Michael…
A manhunt is under way in Rankin County for escaped state inmate Michael Floyd Wilson. Wilson, 51, escaped the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility on Sunday, the Mississippi Department of Corrections posted on its Facebook page. The Rankin County Sheriff's Office…
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections is taking over operation of Marshall County Correctional Facility - a prison that has been privately run since it opened 25 years ago. Management & Training Corp. is the private…
LAUDERDALE, Miss. (WCBI)- The East Mississippi Correctional Facility is investigating the deaths of two inmates. Officers found 65-year-old Fritz Garcia unresponsive in his cell around 4 p.m. on Saturday. Medical staff administered CPR until paramedics arrived and transported Garcia to Rush Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Garcia was serving a life sentence for […]
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections has launched a seminary program for incarcerated women, more than 10 years after beginning its seminary for men. Inmates in the 29-member inaugural women’s class will be enrolled in a four-year…
George County Sheriff's deputies arrested two men on drug and weapons charges after a traffic stop. Deputies with the George County Sheriff’s Office were patrolling in the Brushy Creek Road area of Rocky Creek on Oct. 22 when they made…
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…
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) — 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…
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…
BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections on Monday night made its first announcement of a coronavirus case in one of the state prisons. An inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary was…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Corrections is temporarily stopping in-person check-ins for people on probation, parole, house arrest or other forms of community supervision. It's part of an effort to control the spread of the new coronavirus.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has been pronounced dead. News outlets report the 42-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell Thursday afternoon. The Mississippi Department of Corrections has not identified the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — One Mississippi inmate has died at a Jackson hospital and another has died at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Autopsies will be done. At least 24 Mississippi inmates have died since late December. The state…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV) — One prisoner is behind bars... again. After just a few hours on the lam, law enforcement recaptured an inmate that escaped from a work release center in Harrison County overnight. Authorities say 27-year-old Christopher Epps left…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says the state will take steps to close part of a notorious prison that has been rocked by deadly violence. Reeves gave his first State of the State speech Monday. He said…
By Associated Press PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) - A coroner says an inmate has died after being found hanging at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which was a focus of recent deadly unrest. Coroner Heather Burton said in a statement…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi is looking nationwide for a new prisons director. The state's prisons are reckoning with a recent outburst of violence that left five inmates dead and others injured, along with…