Federal funding for the Mississippi Humanities Council was cut, effective immediately. Here's how the cuts may affect you.

The contract with immigration services allows for the feds to pay the state on a nightly basis when using beds for detainees ...

March 28, 2025 The Mississippi State Auditor’s office on Friday said ... a former Rankin County deputy who is serving a federal prison sentence for his part in torturing two Black men in 2023.

Some of the current programs include Ideas on Tap, Prison Education ... "It will be a tremendous loss to southwest Mississippi and the entire state if we were to lose the support and funding ...

In 2014, Mississippi lawmakers cited babies born ... 2007, at Mule Creek State Prison, where last year two women were allegedly strangled during conjugal visits with their significant others.

A man who drove from Mississippi to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old girl for sex while in possession of a loaded ...

The Amador County Sheriff's Office and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ... in the early 1900s at Parchman, the Mississippi State Penitentiary. At the time, Parchman ...

Three Georgia men were arrested for burglarizing a pharmacy on the Mississippi Coast. According to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS), Brian Garland, ...

Two women were killed while visiting with their significant others in a California prison last year, putting the controversial practice of conjugal visits for inmates in the national spotlight.

As Mississippi grapples with one of the nation's highest incarceration rates, a new national campaign highlights the economic and social toll of prison recidivism - and the proven benefits of ...

Javier Escamilla was sentenced to five years in the Mississippi State Prison, but the DeSoto County District Attorney’s Office says he will not serve the time in the U.S. and will instead face ...

A man convicted of murder and sentenced to death in two states is scheduled to be executed on May 15. Here's what to know.