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 ...

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

Five inmates have died in prison violence since Sunday, Dec. 29; three of those deaths were at Parchman. The prison is a series of cell blocks scattered across thousands of acres of farmland in ...

At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as ... they chipped mortar away from the bricks of their cell in the ancient Attala County jail at Kosciusko.

At the time, the men on death row were kept in their cells 23 hours a ... Burl Cain: He remade Angola prison in own image. Can he do the same with notorious Parchman? Mississippi Department ...

Subtitled 'Another Mississippi Sunday Morning', this record of prisoners' songs is folk music like you've never heard it before Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Sunday Morning was recorded ...

William Ferris writes I was never sure how or why I was allowed into Parchmans Camp B and I never asked Set apart from the main complex of Parchman ... wanted to record prison work chants The ...

They pointed to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which has long been ... access to common areas instead of being kept in cells indefinitely and providing programs does relieve ...