Jackson, Mississippi — A Mississippi prison violated inmates' constitutional rights by failing to protect them from violence, failing to meet their mental health needs, failing to take adequate steps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2020, the number of people who died in custody with the Mississippi Department of Corrections reached triple digits in a prison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice ...

Few institutional buildings in Mississippi, whether bastions of higher learning, chambers of government ranging from the Capitol to the courthouse to city hall, citadels of the cultural arts or ...

For years, JAY-Z and Yo Gotti have combatted corrupt prison systems, most notably Parchman. Pieces of their work will now be shown in Exposing Parchman, a documentary on A&E highlighting the work ...

The U.S. Department of Justice published a report last week, outlining how the Mississippi Department of Corrections is violating prisoners’ rights at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as ...

Mississippi's Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level... The blues returns to Mississippi's Parchman Prison Farm ...

Attorneys hired by Jay-Z and other entertainers have ended two lawsuits they filed on behalf of Mississippi inmates in 2020 over what they said were squalid living conditions at the state's oldest ...

Inmate/students practice blues harmonica during a classroom session of the Blues Tradition in American Literature course inside Parchman Prison in Mississippi. (John Burnett) Their crimes range from ...