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The mayor said the cop had worked for the Pearl Police Department for about six months after having worked at other law enforcement agencies in the Jackson area
Two corrections officers who worked at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility got into an altercation in the parking lot, leading to one officer firing a gun
Sheriff Tyree Jones said the jail now has fewer than 400 people being held in other pods, which should alleviate some concerns about short staffing and help ensure public safety
Lt. Michael Boutte of the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department was shot in the face and head on Feb. 1, 2021, while responding to a call about a suicide threat
Currently, Mississippi has the highest imprisonment rate; The report states this is a key reason the state also has the nation’s lowest labor force participation rate
Corey Harrison and three other inmates escaped from the Raymond Detention Center on April 22
Casey Grayson is the third escaped prisoner to be found in a multi-agency hunt
Jerry Raynes was apprehended days after he and three other inmates escaped from the Raymond Detention Center
Sheriff: “He inflicted that kind of terror after escaping from jail, killing people and shooting law enforcement. But that guy won’t be killing anyone else”
The Tactical Games were created to provide a platform to test the skills and readiness of tactical athletes of all backgrounds
The two-time escapee committed aggravated robbery before stealing two cars and was taken into custody as he attempted to carjack a third car
Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., who claimed he was “deeply remorseful,” was put to death by lethal injection
Wendell M. France Sr., an experienced corrections administrator, has 120 days to draft a reform plan
The decree, which ordered the jail to improve its conditions, stemmed from a 2011 class action lawsuit
A death row inmate had sought a specialized DNA analysis in hopes it would exonerate him
A weapon was found earlier in the week after threats had been made to assault the facility’s “smallest female” CO
Staffing shortages are so severe at the facility that gangs and “inmate committees” control many aspects of life
The staff members waited more than a day to tell MDOC he was missing
Jail staff immediately noticed “irregularities” with the request
Three Mississippi two-year colleges are part of a $375,000 grant supporting humanities courses being taught in prisons
Gov. Tate Reeves said closing Parchman’s Unit 29 is a way to ‘turn the page’ on the longstanding problems plaguing the prison
“I seek to be executed as I do here, this day, stand on death row a guilty man worthy of death — please grant me this plea,” inmate David Cox wrote
In the less than four months the service has been operational, inmates have had more than 13,000 visits -- four times the number of in-person visits in the last year
A portion of I-94 in Jackson County will be renamed after COs Jack Budd and Josephine McCallum, slain in the line of duty in 1987
Jebarious Neal, 27, of Hazlehurst, who’s in the Jefferson/Franklin County Correctional Facility in Fayette, is charged with false pretense
Attorney argued that the information must be disclosed under Public Records Act since taxpayer money is used to buy the drugs
Jackson County’s new Adult Detention Center has been named in honor of Deputy Bruce W. Evans, who was killed in the line of duty 15 years ago
Seven people have sued Mississippi’s capital city, saying its municipal court illegally jailed them because they couldn’t pay court fines
The state Health Department issued a boil-water alert for the prison on Monday, Sept. 28, after intestinal bacteria were found in a drinking water sample