Five years after a gang war and unrest at Mississippi’s prisons left a dozen dead from homicides and suicides, officials say these prisons are different places. They pointed to the Mississippi State ...

The Mississippi Department of Corrections finally got their man. Convicted murdered Nevin Whetstone, who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary was captured in Sunflower County on March 7, ...

Convicted murderer Nevin Whetstone, 71, escaped from Parchman prison in Mississippi. Whetstone was discovered missing Tuesday morning, and it is unknown how he escaped. This is not Whetstone's first ...

A MAN ON THE RUN TONIGHT...AFTER ESCAPING PRISON. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HER AT FIVE...- I'M MEGAN WEST. AND I'M ERIN PICKENS. THAT ESCAPEE HAS TIES TO THE METRO. THE "STATE DEPARTMENT OF ...

Seventy-one-year-old Nevin Whetstone is back in custody three days after he escaped the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. After a statewide search that prompted a lockdown for schools in ...

the Mississippi Delta north to south runs 200 miles and is 87 miles at its widest some call the Delta the most southern place on Earth it's also the site of the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary ...

Second Verses, a Chattanooga based organization dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of music, recently conducted a series of impactful songwriting workshops at Mississippi State ...

One of two prisoners believed to have escaped from one of several Mississippi prisons recently rocked by violence is back in custody, authorities said early Sunday. The Mississippi Department of ...

Richard Jordan, 79, was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina De Gruy Marter. Jordan spent 48 years on death row, the longest in Mississippi history. Marter's family ...

*Attorney Antonio Moore delves into the question of why the Democrats are ignoring a discussion around mass incarceration and Mississippi #parchmanprison and a black agenda. Plus, having no major ...

Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at Mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay drenched towels strategically across their ...