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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Echo Theater Company has announced another three-play season for 2025 that will provoke, entertain and surprise audiences. Learn more about the ilneup here!

The Echo Theater Company has announced another electrifying three-play season for 2025 that will provoke, entertain and ...

Attorney General Lynn Fitch has renewed her efforts to have the state’s highest court to set an execution date for death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. In court documents filed earlier this month, ...

Due to recent weather events, the Natchez Branch of the NAACP has moved its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade to ...