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

A bill making its way through the Mississippi Senate could shutter the state's 123-year-old penitentiary at Parchman by 2028. Senate Bill 2353, written by Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg ...

Gov. Phil Bryant on Saturday said via Twitter that he has directed "the use of all necessary assets and personnel" to find the two inmates who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at ...

They pointed to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which has long been regarded as one of the nation’s worst prisons. The facility has been remodeled, and all the units except for ...

Sen. Juan Barnett, the committee’s chairman, said the prison is unsafe for staff and inmates after years of underfunding and neglect.

Under Mississippi’s earthy and antiquated penal system, the tougher and more ruthless a convict is, the better off he is. At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as ...

More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...

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 ...

Authorities are looking for a 45-year-old man who escaped Monday from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Gregory Trigg is serving a total of 61 years in prison for nine convictions, ...

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 ...