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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... the town of Lambert Mississippi On my ...