Deputy warden charged with injury inmate at Mississippi State Penitentiary
A federal grand jury has charged a deputy warden at Mississippi’s State Penitentiary with injuring an inmate in 2016 and lying about it to investigators. Prosecutors…
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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…
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…
2 inmates die after falling ill at Mississippi prisons
JACKSON, Miss. (WXXV) — An inmate housed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman died at the Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville early Monday morning. Darryl J. Swanier, 58, was serving life sentences for two separate capital murder convictions…
42-year-old man the 27th inmate to die in Mississippi since late December
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…
Mississippi inmate death toll rises amid Governor's "state of emergency" extension
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Another Mississippi inmate has died and the governor is extending an order allowing quick spending to try to fix prison problems. At least 16 inmates have died in Mississippi prisons…
Gov. Tate Reeves is shutting down "Unit 29" inside the prison where 9 inmates have died
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…
Prison reform advocates demand action
The latest death of an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary is raising more red flags about the safety of the state’s prisons. Several groups that are part of the Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition spoke out following the third inmate…