Mississippi’s private contract for prison medical services has come under growing scrutiny this year as complaints mount ...

At least five people who were from out of state or outside the county have died in the past 1 1/2 years inside the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility. Deaths there have left family members ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

The chapel was dedicated with a sermon by Rev. Fred Luter, the first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the third prison chapel to open in Mississippi, with two ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mississippi woman was sentenced last Thursday to federal prison after defrauding a COVID-19 relief program of over $5 million. Lisa Evans, 42, of Olive Branch, Miss., has been ...