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

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 ...

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

In the wake of Mississippi Today reports of an amputation from a neglected broken bone, untreated hepatitis C and delayed ...

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 ...