After reports of cell keys being shared and the lights turned off, Denorris Howell was killed in his dark Parchman prison ...

Though the state’s prisons have repeatedly been cited for unconstitutional conditions, the killings show no sign of ending.

John Lowe was beaten to death in a prison shower in 2021, but the murder suspect was not served the indictment because of ...

In June 2024, he killed 35-year-old Callie Brunett and her 4-year-old daughter, Erin, who he had kidnapped along with her ...

A coalition urges the FCC to allow prisons to use jamming systems to block certain cellphone signals, currently banned under federal law.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an Oct. 15 execution date for the man convicted of kidnapping and killing a college ...

Text messages and a video from a prisoner inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary have raised questions about a homicide there during a 2020 gang war. During the war, Denorris Howell was strangled ...

A collaborative investigation found that out of 42 homicides in Mississippi prisons over the past decade, only six resulted in convictions. Denorris Howell was strangled to death at the Mississippi ...