A bill to close Parchman Farm failed in the Senate for the second time. Plus, updates on Medicaid and ballot initiative efforts in the Legislature ...

Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison ... Since the state must operate at least one state-owned prison, the Tallahatchie County Correction Facility ...

Another Mississippi Sunday Morning was recorded in the course of a single day at Parchman Farm, the vast Mississippi State Penitentiary. It is performed entirely by twelve inmates of the jail, men ...

Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

who was inspired by a prison chain gang song that began on Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary. After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make ...

Photos show a view of the current state of the showers. For the first time in years, KELOLAND News has been invited inside the South Dakota State Penitentiary with a camera. The climate crisis is ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Among the stops on a tour Wednesday of the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls was a group shower, a location which the state Department of Corrections ...