The announcement at a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting in Austin on Thursday morning was met with applause from the ...

Mississippi Today continues its investigation into the alleged denial of health care in the state prison system.  Christopher ...

An investigation into a shooting at the Issaquena County Correctional Facility is underway, but local investigators have yet ...

J ACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - An inmate convicted of sexually assaulting an employee at the Central Mississippi Correctional ...

Robert Cage escaped from the Mississippi Department of Corrections Work Center in Noxubee County late this morning, November ...

As of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue a ruling on Mississippi death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford's petition to halt his scheduled execution. Crawford's execution ...

During a routine prison shift change at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in Mississippi, the deadly attack unfolding on Unit Charlie 2’s security monitors went unnoticed. When a new crew ...

The U.S. Supreme Court and Mississippi Supreme Court denied last-minute emergency petitions to stay the execution of death ...

A new federal lawsuit says Mississippi's Parchman prison is a violent place where inmates live in “abhorrent conditions” and their medical needs are ignored. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of ...

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 ...

The man credited with turning around one of America’s most dangerous prisons had a nearly 90-minute session with South Dakota ...