Some Mississippi lawmakers and community advocates rallied at the State Capitol on Wednesday to support a bill that would ...

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

Blackmon said he wanted to see the state's prison system first hand, and that he would be touring other prisons in the future ...

EXCLUSIVE: John Goodman Puts Historic New Orleans Home on the Market for $5.5 Million—Weeks After L.A. Mansion Was Destroyed in Wildfires I ordered the same meal at In-N-Out and Culver's. I ...

Rep. Becky Currie introduced several bills in the Mississippi State House of Representatives Corrections committee this ...

Lawmakers gathered Wednesday at the State Capitol to push for prison reform legislation.Members of the Democratic Caucus and ...

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

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

Mississippi lawmakers will consider requiring state prisons to provide inmates on work assignments with protective gear. The legislation follows an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging inmates at a ...

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

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 ...

Two siblings from Forrest County pled guilty to conspiring with each other to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits related to the COVID-19 ...