April 24, 2018 in News
By JEFF AMY Associated Press BRANDON, Miss. (AP) – A new survey provided exclusively to The Associated Press shows that Mississippi inmates awaiting trial can spend months or even years […]
April 20, 2018 in News
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi’s prison system is removing some inmates from county-run jails to save money, but sheriffs are protesting the reductions. Corrections […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The medical director for a privately run prison in east Mississippi told a federal court that inmates sometimes have to miss medical appointments if the prison […]
April 9, 2015 in News
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — On Jan. 31, 2014, a century-old practice of allowing conjugal visits for inmates in Mississippi ended. Now, a federal magistrate judge will determine if Mississippi inmates […]
January 11, 2013 in News, Statewide News
As Mississippi enters the second half of the current fiscal year, the state’s prison population continues to increase with no apparent signs of abating.
During 2011, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities declined by 0.9 percent, from 1,613,803 to 1,598,780.
But that was not the case in Mississippi.
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