The funding bill limits regional correctional facilities to spending no more than $32.71 daily on housing inmates.

The House passed a bill Thursday that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to inmates at Mississippi prisons.

U.S. District Court Judge Tom Lee sentenced former Hinds County Sheriff Marshand Crisler on Tuesday for the two counts he was convicted of in November.

Kolkata: The number of Bangladeshi released prisoners languishing in correctional homes across the state has come down to 179 — as of Jan 1, 2024 — compared to 495 in 2011. According to the ...

Mississippi’s state constitution imposes a lifetime voting ban on people convicted for a range of both violent and nonviolent felonies, including shoplifting and writing a bad check. Most states take ...

this time for his role in the MS-13 leadership’s negotiations with the Bukele administration. Detainees under the state of exception wait in front of the main gate of the La Esperanza Prison, in the ...

This is not the seat you paid for. Here’s what to do if you get downgraded on a flight Judge appears inclined to deny request to block DOGE's mass firings High-Paying Jobs (That No One Wants ...

That old bothersome catchphrase, “better late than never,” certainly applies to the Yazoo Backwater Pump Project in Mississippi’s southern Delta. It required 80-plus years of wrangling with ...

He was exonerated in 2008 after 24 years in prison. Lamonte McIntyre was wrongfully convicted of a Kansas City, Kansas, double homicide in 1994 and spent 23 years in prison until his exoneration ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday ...