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U.S. News & World Report
March 19, 2018
Prison officials in Mississippi say a correctional officer has been arrested after synthetic marijuana in her car parked at the facility. March 18, 2018, at ... Mississippi Department of Corrections officials told WAPT-TV on Friday that 38-year-old Katrina Denise Turner was arrested Wednesday. Authorities say aÃâà...
WJTV
March 16, 2018
Jiang-Stein, whose story of being born in prison is captured in her book Prison Baby: A Memoir, said Mississippi's prison system was a perfect fit for the pilot program. She previously visited Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl and features the prison in a video about her work for which she wasÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 16, 2018
A psychiatrist testified Thursday in a trial about prison conditions that solitary confinement at a Mississippi prison is "shockingly harsh and inhumane," saying long stays in solitary cause serious damage to the mentally ill inmates held there. Dr. Terry Kupers testified that East Mississippi Correctional FacilityÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 10, 2018
JACKSON — Three inmates testified in federal court Friday that a Mississippi state prison has unsanitary conditions, is inadequately staffed and provides insufficient health care. In its federal suit against the state of Mississippi, the American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Poverty Law Center argue thatÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 5, 2018
JACKSON — Lawyers for inmates argued Monday that conditions at a Mississippi prison are unconstitutionally abusive, while the state's lawyers said ... Both sides made opening arguments Monday in what could be a six-week trial examining conditions at the privately run East Mississippi CorrectionalÃâà...
Mississippi Today
March 5, 2018
Jody Owens, managing attorney for the Mississippi Southern Poverty Law Center, said the conditions that existed in the prison when his organization first filed the lawsuit, with the American Civil Liberties Union and private law firms, persist today. “Prisons are large facilities and, particularly, private prisonsÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 2, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed a memo reversing an Obama-era order that sought to limit the use of private prisons. ... A trial is slated to begin Monday in U.S. District Court in a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates at the East Mississippi prison, alleging violence, dysfunctional mental health careÃâà...
Jackson Free Press
December 31, 1999
#Beasley used to clean out cells at the prison in Lauderdale County. On the stand, he described life "in the zone" at one of Mississippi's three private prisons in federal court. He testified that he misses his morning insulin treatment "a lot" whenever the officer in the tower does not let him out of his cell to goÃâà...
WDSU New Orleans
December 31, 1999
Former Mississippi officer gets 5 years in federal prison for marijuana charge ... was arrested in 2015 after his grandfather, Elijah Moore, admitted at a traffic stop near Vicksburg to carrying eight duffel bags of marijuana from Texas to Mississippi. ... He was sentenced in 2017 to eight years in federal prison.
WTOK
December 31, 1999
(WTOK) - A Jefferson Davis County man who recently got out of prison on a child exploitation sentence is headed back for another 40 years on more of the same charges. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says Christopher Morgan, 27, of Bassfield, was sentenced on three counts of child exploitation,Ãâà...
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