The Senate Corrections Committee also kept a bill alive to create a Corrections Overview Task Force. Inmates in Mississippi ...

A Louisiana man pled guilty in federal court to conspiring with another individual to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits related to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

The legislative proposals follow Mississippi Today's ongoing "Behind Bars, Beyond Care" investigative series, which has documented alleged routine denial of health care in Mississippi prisons.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – An inmate in the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) pled guilty to one count of identity theft, ...

Continuing their ongoing efforts towards social justice and prison reform, this week Jay-Z, Yo Gotti, and Team ROC have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 227 Mississippi inmates addressing the ...

MDOC said the class was offered through a partnership with the Mississippi Community Financial Access Coalition and Guaranty Bank.

The probe comes after prisoners in Unit 29 had to endure freezing temperatures without heat in January after a winter storm ...

A recent audit of the Mississippi prison system’s spending revealed that the state’s Department of Corrections spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on some pretty fancy shit. The staff reportedly ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday, Dec. 9, that an inmate died Sunday, Dec. 7, at the Federal Correctional Institution Yazoo City Medium in Yazoo City. According to a news release from ...