TANK TO INCREASE WATER PRESSURE IN THE AREA AND REDOING THE ROOF OF THE LIVESTOCK JUDGING ARENA. SEVERE WEATHER CAUSED A LOT OF DAMAGE AT THE STATE PENITENTIARY AT PARCHMENT. HIGH WIND THAT RIPPED ...

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 ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

MDOC has new technology at Parchman to block cell- phone calls, Epps said. Also, they have metal detectors and will do strip searches, among other things, to try to eliminate cellphone use. Facebook ...

Can faith-based programming make a difference behind prison walls? A long-term research project by Pepperdine University is in the process of finding out — with help from the Mississippi Department of ...

One prisoner strangled another to death while other inmates cheered the killing. Two convicts escaped a dilapidated building by walking out an open door. Maximum security detainees freely roamed ...

A collaborative investigation found that out of 42 homicides in Mississippi prisons over the past decade, only six resulted in convictions. Denorris Howell was strangled to death at the Mississippi ...