The legislative proposals follow Mississippi Today's ongoing "Behind Bars, Beyond Care" investigative series, which has ...

Legislative proposals about prison health care follow investigative reports from Mississippi Today and other news outlets on ...

Melvin Cancer was killed by guards beating him inside the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, a new report shows.

A Department of Justice investigation into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman Farm found unsafe and inhumane conditions at the prison have violated the U.S. Constitution. The DOJ released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OXFORD – A month after admitting he killed a former Ole Miss student in July 2022, a Grenada man has begun serving his 40-year ...

Another Mississippi inmate has died in a troubled state prison. State corrections officials said the death Wednesday appeared to be a suicide by hanging. At least 10 inmates have died in the state's ...

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 ...

The Mississippi House passed several bills this week aimed at improving the quality of medical care in Mississippi prisons and developing stronger oversight of health care delivery.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi prison ...