A nonprofit organization with a goal of teaching state inmates writing skills has released a book of art and writing by men ...

They pointed to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which has long been regarded as one of the nation’s worst prisons. The facility has been remodeled, and all the units except for Unit 29 ...

A bill making its way through the Mississippi Senate could shutter the state's 123-year-old penitentiary at Parchman by 2028. Senate Bill 2353, written by Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg ...

Senate Bill 2047 by Sen. Juan Barnett proposed a four-year phase down of operations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ... a prison guard in 1947, the state ...

VOX PRESS unveils a powerful anthology of writings from incarcerated individuals at Mississippi’s most infamous prison unit, ...

Can faith-based programming make a difference behind prison walls? A long-term research project by Pepperdine University is in the process of finding out — with help from the Mississippi ...

Even after DNA testing showed he wasn’t the suspect who killed the three women in the Boyd family, it still took years for Sherwood Brown to get his release from custody.