RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — An inmate in a Mississippi jail has died after being assaulted by two other detainees, authorities say. Hinds County Interim Sheriff Marshand Crisler told news outlets Tuesday that Michael Richardson was attacked Monday inside the general…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi senators have confirmed Burl Cain as the new commissioner of the state prison system. The 77-year-old Cain is a former warden of Angola prison in Louisiana, and he faced…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - An inmate serving a 30-year sentence for assault has died in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The Mississippi Department of Corrections says no foul play is suspected in the Thursday death of…
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…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than two dozen Mississippi inmates are suing the state. The lawsuit filed Tuesday says the state's understaffed prisons are “plagued by violence.” In a separate development, federal authorities on…
Prisoner advocates are calling on the federal government to investigate the state’s prison system for possible Civil Rights violations. They say five deaths in recent days highlights deliberate violations of inmates’ constitutional rights. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other…
By JEFF AMY and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Prison officials in Mississippi long ago warned that they needed money to hire more guards and pay them better or else the state's prison system could experience…