Two years into a continuing research study at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, a new film offers a glimpse ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of ...

Each week it feels like yet another story comes out about a prisoner being killed in a Mississippi prison. Hopefully,tonight’s news means that meaningful change is on the way. Suggested Reading The ...

A Mississippi man, Charles Crawford, 59, was executed on Wednesday for the 1993 kidnapping, rape, and murder of a 20-year-old community college student. He was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a ...

Christopher Boose awoke to see a sign for the paraplegic unit at the hospital where he had arrived five hours earlier, shackled and drifting in and out of consciousness. “Cut it off,” he remembered ...

Charles Ray Crawford is set to be executed at 6 p.m., Oct. 15, after spending more than 30 years on death row for the rape and murder of Kristy Ray.

A new federal lawsuit says Mississippi's Parchman prison is a violent place where inmates live in “abhorrent conditions” and their medical needs are ignored. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of ...

Days after guards used an electric vest to shock a man in exchange for a Coke, they shared videos of him singing Happy ...

Hot water has been restored to Montana inmates who are being housed in a private Core Civic prison in Mississippi.