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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for ...

It might always take a little while for January to grind into gear in terms of releases and musicians doing things, but that hasn’t stopped our keyboards from clattering, words firing up into the site ...

Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman, is the state’s oldest facility and has often faced calls for its closure. It was established in 1901 and houses more than 2,500 people. However, ...

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 ...