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

PARCHMAN, Miss. — Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death-row inmate, requested chicken tenders, fries, strawberry ice cream and a root beer float for his last meal ahead of his scheduled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARCHMAN, Miss. — Charles Ray Crawford, who is scheduled to be the second death row inmate put to death in Mississippi this year, ...

Yo Gotti and Jay-Z are continuing to fight for Mississippi prison inmates. According to court documents obtained by Complex, the rappers and Team ROC have procured legal representation for more than ...

ATLANTA — Prison officials in Mississippi said Tuesday that two inmates were beaten to death at the state penitentiary in Parchman, coming after a burst of violence across the state that left five ...

A Department of Justice investigation into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm found unsafe and inhumane conditions at the prison have violated the U.S. Constitution. The DOJ released ...

But over the last week, such worries have come to feel almost trifling, as Mississippi’s state prisons have exploded with gang warfare, riots, disorder and killing. Five inmates have died, three of ...

Lately, the Mississippi prison system has been doing a lot to challenge my assumption that HBO’s Oz was a complete work of fiction. The sheer violence and harsh living conditions inmates suffer alone ...

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 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Wednesday, June 25, Richard Gerald Jordan, who has been on death row at Parchman since 1976 for kidnapping and killing Edwina Marter, a Gulfport banker’s wife, is set to be ...

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...