Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicides and suicides, officials say these prisons are different places. They pointed to the Mississippi State ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his scheduled ...

Convicted murderer Nevin Whetstone, 71, escaped from Parchman prison in Mississippi. Whetstone was discovered missing Tuesday morning, and it is unknown how he escaped. This is not Whetstone's first ...

*Attorney Antonio Moore delves into the question of why the Democrats are ignoring a discussion around mass incarceration and Mississippi #parchmanprison and a black agenda. Plus, having no major ...

Lately, the Mississippi prison system has been doing a lot to challenge my assumption that HBO’s Oz was a complete work of fiction. The sheer violence and harsh living conditions inmates suffer alone ...

One of two prisoners believed to have escaped from one of several Mississippi prisons recently rocked by violence is back in custody, authorities said early Sunday. The Mississippi Department of ...

Mississippi authorities were searching for two prisoners believed to have escaped Saturday from one of several prisons rocked by violence that has left at least five inmates dead in the past week. Gov ...

Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at Mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay drenched towels strategically across their ...

A MAN ON THE RUN TONIGHT...AFTER ESCAPING PRISON. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HER AT FIVE...- I'M MEGAN WEST. AND I'M ERIN PICKENS. THAT ESCAPEE HAS TIES TO THE METRO. THE "STATE DEPARTMENT OF ...

THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS IS CURRENTLY SEARCHING FOR A CONVICTED MURDERER WHO ESCAPED PARCHMENT THIS MORNING. A JUDGE SENTENCED 71 YEAR OLD NEVIN WHETSTONE TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead ...