A Georgia man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to coerce a Mississippi minor to send sexually explicit ...

A Clarion Ledger reporter recounts what it was like to witness Mississippi’s execution of Richard Jordan, who spent nearly 50 ...

Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.

The South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville became the state's third prison to open a new chapel for its ...

The state of Mississippi is the subject of lawsuits and a federal investigation following the deaths of more than 30 inmates in its prison system since late last year.

Half of all correctional-officer jobs in Mississippi’s state-run prisons are empty. A Marshall Project survey of all 50 state corrections systems nationwide found only Alabama had a higher ...

New Mississippi governor announces prison reforms after series of deaths, riots. Ten inmates have died in the state's prisons in the past month.

All state prisons statewide remained locked down Friday, confining inmates to cells and blocking visitors. Besides Howell, Terrandance Dobbins, 40, was killed Sunday at South Mississippi.

The Justice Department released a report Wednesday that found “chronic, systemic deficiencies” in Mississippi state prisons that violate prisoners’ constitutional rights.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., is the oldest prison and the only maximum-security prison for men in the state. Credit... William Widmer for The New York Times ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Nine big men sit attentively at their desks inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary—the once infamous prison labor colony known as Parchman Farm.They're wearing green-and ...

At his prison, East Mississippi Correctional Facility, only 83 of the 1,200 men at the prison have been tested, state data shows. Mississippi officials boast of having one of the lowest ...