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

A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

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 ...

Andrew Johnson had been at South Mississippi Correctional Institution the day before and was on his way to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman the following day. "I have been interested ...

They were discovered missing about 1:45 a.m. Saturday from the state penitentiary at Parchman, Miss. May was convicted of aggravated assault in Harrison County. Williams was convicted of aggravated ...

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 ...

At the 16,000-acre Parchman Prison Farm such bad actors are used as “shooter trusties,” equipped with rifles and vertical stripes, and set to guarding their lesser, not so enterprising ...

VOX PRESS unveils a powerful anthology of writings from incarcerated individuals at Mississippi’s most infamous prison unit, ...

William Ferris writes I was never sure how or why I was allowed into Parchmans Camp B and I never asked Set apart from the main complex of Parchman ... wanted to record prison work chants The ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday ...