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

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

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

Jackson County Judge Kathy King Jackson on Friday sentenced Michael Earl Grimes, 36, to 25 years in prison, suspending three years and leaving 22 years for him to serve, and three years of ...

A proposed penalty to Mississippi’s rape law may punish certain criminals in ways that raise constitutional issues. Under ...

These Mississippians convicted in the U.S. Capitol insurrection are included in President Trump's massive pardon regarding ...

More than a year after a state-appointed court in Jackson, Mississippi, became law and lawsuits were dismissed challenging ...

A man pled guilty to a fatal shooting at a sports plant in Northeast Mississippi. According to the First Circuit District Attorney’s Office, Menderil Cohen pled ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing former President Joe Biden's ban on private prison contracts with the Justice Department. Along with this, Trump also signed an executive ...

At Nottoway Correctional Center, the outlook was bleak. Two nurses at the all-male state prison staffed a day shift meant to be staffed by eight. Emergency medical requests from inmates were ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...