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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Next up, Andi Chapman directs the West Coast premiere of 'Berta, 'Berta a "fictional origin story" by Angelica Chéri, who was inspired by a prison chain gang song that began on Parchman Farm ...