Mississippi State Penitentiary News

A special medical unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is providing dying prisoners a bit of comfort in their final days.

Penned inside a stark world of concrete and steel, the messages are often congenial, the words soft.

Editor's Note: The following is the second in a series of stories about Stokes McMillian's upcoming book, "One Night of Madness." The book chronicles the lives of several Newport and area families leading up to the murder of a black family at the hands Leon Turner and his accomplishes in 1950.

The black-and-white images of bluesmen'and women'of the Mississippi Delta look as if they had been taken in the 1930s or '40s, when some of the blues songs were first recorded.

Just two hours into his second day on the job at a Vicksburg truck stop, 17-year-old Phillip Morson was shot and killed by a co-worker, Alvin Cessna.

Scott Cagle, left, the extension director for Chickasaw County, helped Master Gardeners Glen Chisolm, Virginia Rowlett and John Walden beautify an overgrown lot in downtown Houston.

Fifty years after he attempted to integrate the University of Southern Mississippi, the legacy of the late Clyde Kennard will be celebrated in a symposium hosted by the university's Center for Black Studies.

A Mississippi congressman has begun planning what he hopes will be a national commemoration of the Freedom Ride - the 1961 protest against segregated interstate bus travel.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is full of convicted felons. It also is full of voters.

Three correction officers are charged with smuggling marijuana and cell phones into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Three corrections officers are charged with smuggling marijuana and cell phones into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, officials say.

Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head _ a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its shape.

Authorities said three correctional officers have been charged with smuggling contraband into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

In some ways, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's extension center graduation May 20 mirrored any other seminary graduation ceremony.

The Associated Press: Mississippi State Penitentiary inmate Michael Anthony Wilson shakes the hand of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's Christian Ministry program in Parchman, Miss.

PARCHMAN - For the 28 men who were awarded their bachelor's degree in Christian Ministry on May 20 at a ceremony in western Mississippi, the decision to pursue higher education did not come without risks.