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Mississippi Parole Approvals Decline As Incarceration Rises

The Mississippi Parole Board can deny parole to people in prison if its members consider a judge’s sentence too low, Meridian-native Julia Monteele Norman told the Mississippi Senate Corrections Committee during her confirmation hearing on Feb. 13.

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Kayode Crown March 22, 2023
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‘The Gangs Run the Prison’: Witness Disputes Official Parchman Death Account

A former inmate says that days before inmates Timothy Hudspeth and James Talley died in Parchman, Miss., in 2020, gang members beat them for hours.

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Kayode Crown December 7, 2022
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Capital Murder Inmate Seeks Parole Under New Law, But Attorney General Says No

Glen Conley had just parked his Nissan vehicle outside his workplace, Supreme Healthcare Corporation, in Houston, Texas, in August 1997, when two men followed him

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Kayode Crown November 16, 2022
Mississippi State Auditor Shad White seated at his desk
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Auditor Claims State Paid ‘Ghost Workers’ at Privately Run Prison, Demands $2 Million Back

Mississippi paid “ghost workers” at a private company running the State-owned Marshall County Correctional Facility, Holly Springs, Miss., between 2017 and 2020, the Mississippi state auditor says.

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Kayode Crown November 15, 2022
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‘Too Hot’: MDOC Commissioner Says Installing Air Conditioners in Parchman to Help Hiring Push

Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said that his agency is fixing and installing air-conditioning units at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss.

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Kayode Crown July 25, 2022
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‘Humanitarian Crisis’: AG May Sue Mississippi Over Parchman Prison by June

The investigative report released last week starts the 49-day clock until June 2022, when Attorney General Merrick B. Garland can legally file a case against Mississippi in federal court in line with the Civil Rights for Institutionalized Persons Act.

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Kayode Crown April 28, 2022
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‘Severe, Systemic’: U.S. Civil Rights Division Finds ‘Constitutional Violations’ at Parchman

United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division released a 60-page report on April 20, 2022, after two years of investigating the operations of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

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Kayode Crown April 21, 2022
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Work-Release Program at Correctional Facility in Pearl Awaits Governor’s Signature

Twenty-five inmates at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, a city in Rankin County, will be able to work and earn at least the minimum wage starting July 1, 2022, if Gov. Tate Reeves signs Senate Bill 2437.

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Kayode Crown April 15, 2022
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Sheriff: Rankin County Work-Release Program Is Not ‘Convict Leasing,’ A Vestige of Slavery

ACLU-MS Deputy Director Alicia N. Netterville told the Mississippi Free Press on March 9 that the first version of the 2021 Mississippi House Bill 747 allows convict-leasing, which is akin to slavery. The organization helped guide the language for the final version of the bill that became law.

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Kayode Crown March 24, 2022
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