The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to inmates at Mississippi prisons. The legislation is ...

(WALA) - An urgent search for an escaped killer is over tonight in Leakesville after 33-year-old Drew Johnson was apprehended after breaking out of the South Mississippi Correctional Institution ...

Johnson, who is a resident at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, escaped from the facility on Tuesday afternoon, according to a post by the department on Facebook. He was ...

The facility has been remodeled, and all the units except for Unit 29 have air-conditioning. Air-conditioning has also come to a third of the South Mississippi Correctional Institution, which the ...

Death investigations are underway after two Hinds County detainees died while being housed at the Tallahatchie Correctional Facility. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree ...

The convicted murderer broke out of South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville on Tuesday around 3:30 p.m., according to an alert from the Greene County Emergency Management office ...

Johnson, 33, was captured near the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville after escaping from the prison on Tuesday afternoon, the Mississippi Department of Corrections announced on ...

The coldest air in about a year is on track to arrive this weekend. It will mean sub-freezing highs and single-digit lows for us on Colorado’s Western Slope.