Former Sheriff Terry Grassaree of Noxubee County, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI as they probed claims he solicited nude photos from a female inmate.

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...

A bill advancing through the Mississippi legislature may soon allow inmates in the state to sue prisons if they are housed with someone who is transgender. Last week, state lawmakers advanced HB ...

Two former corrections officers and a case manager from the Mississippi Department of Corrections were sentenced Thursday, Oct. 26, for a violent assault in 2019 that left an inmate severely injured.

All told, at least eight men — including four deputies and Grassaree himself — have been accused of sex abuse by women inmates who were being held in the Noxubee County jail while Grassaree ...

A bill before Mississippi lawmakers might allow incarcerated people to sue jails and prisons if they encounter inmates from the opposite sex, such as those who are transgender, in restrooms or ...

The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

JACKSON, Miss — A bill before Mississippi lawmakers might allow incarcerated people to sue jails and prisons if they encounter inmates from the opposite sex, such as those who are transgender ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A bill before Mississippi lawmakers might allow incarcerated people to sue jails and prisons if they encounter inmates from the opposite sex, such as those who are ...