The legislation follows an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging inmates at a Mississippi prison were exposed to dangerous ...

Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

Officials say transferring the prisoners is a necessary step to manage prison populations and make needed upgrades and ...

After becoming governor, Tate Reeves vowed to clean up Mississippi’s prisons and provide for inmates’ safety. By Jan. 27, 2020, he ordered prison officials to shut down Unit 29. Parchman’s ...

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

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 ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte is asking lawmakers for 500 additional beds at the Deer Lodge prison. With the state prison full, more ...

VOX PRESS unveils a powerful anthology of writings from incarcerated individuals at Mississippi’s most infamous prison unit, ...

Mississippi lawmakers will consider requiring state prisons to provide inmates on work assignments with protective gear. The ...

The Montana's Department of Corrections is working to relieve overcrowding at the state prison.Officials have transported 120 ...

The new agreement includes a plan to send 240 Montana inmates to the company's private prison in Tutwiler, Mississippi.