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 ...

VOX PRESS, a nonprofit literary publisher based in Oxford, Mississippi, has released Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison, an unprecedented collection of essays, poetry, and artwork created by ...

Mississippi, has released Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison, an unprecedented collection of essays, poetry, and artwork created by inmates housed in Mississippi State Penitentiary’s largest ...

who was inspired by a prison chain gang song that began on Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary. After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make ...