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

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 ...