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 ...

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

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 ...

This morning, we are joined with Mr. Louis Bourgeois, who is the Executive Director of the Mississippi Prison Rights Initiative. Louis, good morning to you. Good morning to you. And ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Attorney General Lynn Fitch has renewed her efforts to have the state’s highest court to set an execution date for death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford. In court documents filed earlier this month, ...

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 ...

TUTTWILER - Mississippi State Senator, Juan Barnett, wants to downsize the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. He's filed a bill to send the majority of inmates to a private prison in Tutwiler ...

Beaumont — The Federal Bureau of Prisons tells KFDM News a fight at the Beaumont penitentiary has injured four prisoners. Guards spotted the fight involving several inmates at about 10:45 a.m.