Few institutional buildings in Mississippi, whether bastions of higher learning, chambers of government ranging from the Capitol to the courthouse to city hall, citadels of the cultural arts or ...

Mississippi’s oldest and infamous State Penitentiary at Parchman could be forced to shut down by 2028, sending its thousands of inmates and staff to other prisons and reimagining some of the space to ...

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 ...

MISSISSIPPI - An infamous Mississippi prison could be shut down if a bill introduced into Mississippi legislature gets signed into law. Senate Bill 2353 looks to "phasedown" the state penitentiary in ...

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 ...

(NEW YORK) — A streak of inmate killings and the escape of two violent felons from a maximum security facility put Mississippi’s penitentiaries on lockdown — and under a microscope that’s revealing ...

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 ...

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 Department of ...

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 ...