In 2018, the death of William Wade Aycock IV inside the Rankin County Adult Detention Center was swiftly dismissed by ...

An inmate says that no one wanted to listen when he tried repeatedly to confess to a crime at a facility known for violence.

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review unprosecuted homicides and undetermined deaths in its prisons since 2015. A collaborative news investigation found at least 43 homicides in state ...

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Mississippi’s Lauderdale County is under investigation by the Department of Justice for creating a “school-to-prison” pipeline for students in the local education system. The move by the DOJ, which ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The news arrived in fragments. A young woman’s body, discovered in a Georgia prison cell. The family notified that she had already ...

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This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its ...