Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

Tears well up in Donna Steelman’s eyes as she looks out at her flower garden, wilted from the first November frost, ...

The logo of the Mississippi Department of Corrections is shown on the shirt of a corrections officer, May 9, 2023, at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, Miss. automation Conditions at ...

Why the killings haven’t stopped, a push for better prison health care and Jackson moves closer to hiring a police chief.

At least 42 people have been killed in Mississippi prisons over the past decade due to systemic issues. An investigation found that chronic understaffing, gang violence, and lax oversight contribute ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons.The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its ...

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 ...