The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating the death of an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional ...

TUNICA COUNTY, Miss. - A teen wanted for deadly shooting in Mississippi is in custody, according to the Tunica County Sheriff ...

Authorities served 42 arrest warrants for people who had allegedly committed drug violations and other felony crimes in ...

As Mississippi grapples with one of the nation's highest incarceration rates, a new national campaign highlights the economic and social toll of prison recidivism - and the proven benefits of ...

The only methods that have been used to execute prisoners are hangings, the electric chair, gas chamber and lethal injection, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections website.

The courts where our investigation found questionable no-knock search warrants included Monroe County, where sheriff’s ...

More help is now available for the mentally ill who’ve committed felonies and are now languishing in local jails. Thursday, the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield held a ribbon cutting and ...

In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found. McLain Farms in ...

Over six months, reporters from Mississippi Today interviewed more than 20 former inmates of the Rankin County jail and three former deputies. They also reviewed more than 1,000 pages of county ...