Mississippi prison news
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - Document1 - Mississippi Department of …
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The West Point, Mississippi, native joined MDOC in 1998, moving up in 23 years from a Special Response Team commander, Probation & Parole agent, Agent supervisor, and Community Corrections Director to now controlling Mississippi’s largest prison. CMCF currently houses 3,188 prisoners, male and female, with a bed capacity of over 4,000.
[PDF File] IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Mississippi Department of Corrections
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JACKSON, MISS. - The Mississippi Department of Corrections is offering more housing for individuals eligible for release from prison, but don’t have an approved place to stay.
[PDF File] Incarceration Trends in Mississippi - Vera Institute
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In Mississippi, Black people constituted 39% of state residents, but 57% of people in jail and 62% of people in prison. Incarceration is not only an urban phenomenon. In fact, on a per capita basis, the most rural places in the state often lock up the most people in jail and send the most people to prison. pop. 57% of jail pop. 39% of state pop.
[PDF File] Investigation of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman)
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We note that this Findings Report only addresses Parchman. Our investigation of three other Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) facilities (Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and Wilkinson County Correctional Facility) remains ongoing.
[PDF File] CHAPTER XI RULE VIOLATIONS - Mississippi Department of …
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This chapter applies to all inmates incarcerated in MDOC. Inmates violating a specific prohibited act will be issued an RVR which will become a part of their institutional/facility record.
[PDF File] January 7, 2020 Eric S. Dreiband, Esq. Assistant Attorney …
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We write on behalf of the thousands of Mississippians who are currently incarcerated in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (“MDOC”) and their family members, friends, and communities. The Mississippi prison system is in a state of acute and undeniable crisis, with five deaths in just the last ten days,1 and a …
[PDF File] 2022 FINAL REPORT - Mississippi Department of Corrections
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2022 FINAL REPORT CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE OVERSIGHT TASK FORCE January 2023. ORT CORRECTIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE OVERSIGHT TASK FORCEJanuary 2023MembershipSection 68, H.B. 585, Regular Session 2014, established a committee to be known as the Corrections and Criminal Justice Oversight …
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - 110722_Transitional Work Center Opening
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Fitzhugh, a Texas native who calls Brandon home, will be released on parole after being the first paid MDOC inmate to have worked outside a prison during incarceration as part of a new Transitional Work Center attached to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The program matches eligible inmates with paid jobs outside the prison as a means of giving …
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - Document2 - Mississippi Department of …
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King has served over six years as Superintendent of Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, the state’s largest prison with a capacity of over 4,000 inmates. Previously, King served 11 years as superintendent of South …
[PDF File] Jones v. Mississippi, the Eighth Amendment, and Juvenile Life …
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On April 22, 2021, the Supreme Court decided Jones v. Mississippi, holding that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments does not require a finding that a juvenile offender is permanently incorrigible before the juvenile may be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This Sidebar provides a basic discussion of the …
[PDF File] BOP: Federal Bureau of Prisons Web Site
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On Sunday, January 9, 2022, inmate Dwight Pearson tested positive for COVID-19 at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Yazoo City Medium in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
[PDF File] Issue Brief: Mississippi Department of Corrections …
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Summary: The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) expends over half of its financial resources on providing for the health and safety of inmates, maintaining the security of the state’s prisons, and total costs of housing state inmates in private prisons and county-owned regional facilities. While expenditures on adult prison …
[PDF File] MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION 2024 By: …
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e State of Mississippi, as the case may be, for any 270 illegal or tortious actions of the inmates.271 (4) It is lawful for there to be located within any county a 272 correctional facility operated entirely by a private entity and 273 the federal government to provide correctional services to the 274 United.
[PDF File] South Mississippi prison has a new leader
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SMCI is the newest of the state’s three prisons. It sits on 360 acres at Leakesville in Greene County. One of its unique features is a 25-acre blueberry operation farmed by inmates. The prison can house a maximum 3,282 inmates. It employs 525 people. Banks, a native of Texas, said she appreciates Commissioner Fisher’s and Deputy ...
[PDF File] Proposed Prison Education Program Application: Mississippi …
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The oversight entity (the Mississippi Department of Corrections) approved the prison education program (PEP) through an application process designed to assess the extent to which the PEP will be able to operate in the best interest of students.
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3 For clarity, we organized Douglas’s additional arguments into various categories. 99-19-83, Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated, as amended, a Mississippi habitual offender statute; contrary to the form of the statute in such cases provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.
[PDF File] Mississippi DOI Report
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We classify Mississippi’s prison-sentencing system as operating with a high degree of indeterminacy overall. This assessment takes account of the different prison-release formulas applicable to Mississippi’s two main classes of sentences.
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - 062322_Prison study
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Baylor and Pepperdine chose Mississippi as a follow-up to a previous 5-year study of Commissioner Cain’s success in seminary, reentry, and faith-based programs. Cain’s programs were credited with turning Louisiana’s notorious Angola Prison from America’s bloodiest into a model of calm, order and education. The two project leaders said ...
[PDF File] Prison-to-College Pipeline Program credited with offering …
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The Prison-to-College Pipeline Program is one of many programs the MDOC supports to help incarcerated individuals both during and after incarceration. In addition to Ole Miss and MC, partnering colleges include Millsaps College, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, and Copiah-Lincoln Community College.
[PDF File] PRISON CAMERA REFORM ACT OF 2021
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Shortcomings in the land-mobile radio systems at Bureau of Prison facilities institutions impede the communica-tion abilities of staff, slowing or preventing the response of correctional officers during an emergency or threat of attack, and jeopardizing the safety of both staff and Federal inmates.
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - Document1 - Mississippi Department of …
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JACKSON, MS – For the first time in 10 years, Mississippi prison inmates who smoke will be able to do so legally on February 1, 2021. Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain is turning the negative of smoking into something positive for the state’s 21 prisons and other facilities.
[PDF File] PAYING the PRICE for SOLITARY CONFINEMENT - Prison …
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Over the past few decades, United States corrections systems have increasingly relied on the use of solitary confinement as a tool to manage certain incarcerated populations. Prisoners in solitary confinement remain alone in their cells for 22-24 hours per day – for months, years, and even decades at a time. This practice, which has been shown to be …
[PDF File] Mississippi Department of Corrections Findings Report
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The Mississippi Correctional Institute for Women is on the same complex as Central Mississippi and, for purposes of this report, we refer to both facilities as Central Mississippi.
[PDF File] A Review of the Mississippi Prison Industries Corporation
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The Mississippi Prison Industries Act of 1990 established the current prison industries program. The act created a nonprofit corporation to operate prison industries independent from, but in cooperation with, the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
[PDF File] Microsoft Word - 230908 MSP death ID RICO D1 (002)
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JACKSON, MS (Sep 8) – Mississippi Department of Corrections has identified the victim killed at Parchman Prison early Thursday morning as 23-year-old Raymond Coffey of Lafayette County. MDOC initially withheld Coffey’s identity out of respect for the family and to ensure next of kin was notified. “Based on the information we have thus far ...
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