Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.

As prison populations see major declines nationally, recent data indicated that Mississippi is one of five states heading in ...

Dozens of people have died in Mississippi prisons over the past 10 years and few people in charge of overseeing the ...

In the wake of Mississippi Today reports of an amputation from a neglected broken bone, untreated hepatitis C and delayed cancer diagnoses, Rep. Becky Currie will try again in the coming legislative ...

Mississippi’s Lauderdale County is under investigation by the Department of Justice for creating a “school-to-prison” pipeline for students in the local education system. The move by the DOJ, which ...

More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...