MDOC seizes 69K, busts contraband smuggling scheme
The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced Thursday that its investigators have seized $69,000 in illegal funds from both inmates and their accomplices on the outside....
Tag : contraband
New law disables prisoners contraband cell phones
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Corrections has a new way to attack the widespread use of contraband cellphones in the state prison system. A new law...
MDOC Commissioner: concerning amount of contraband
by Alex Paton
Dozens of cellphones and bags of tobacco were confiscated among a large amount of contraband seized from the Holmes-Humphreys County Regional Correctional Facility in Lexington. The...
Featured MDOC: Lockdown continues, unexpected amount of contraband found
by Alex Paton
Commissioner Pelicia E. Hall said the amount of contraband discovered at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman during the most recent shakedown was unexpected. However, the...
MDOC continues cracking down on contraband in the prison system
by Sarah Ulmer
In their continued effort to crack down on contraband entering the prison system, Commissioner Pelicia Hall makes a statement on one of their own caught...
MDOC busts contraband at Marion-Walthall County
by Alex Paton
Mississippi Department of Corrections officers conducted another shakedown Thursday morning at the Marion-Walthall County regional correctional facility in Columbia. MDOC officers found cellphone chargers, sunglasses,...
MDOC charges officer with contraband
A South Mississippi Correctional Institution officer reported to work likely for the last time Saturday because of what he was carrying in his groin area...
Connecting the dots: foreign drugs coming to Mississippi through the mail
by Jared Bounds
A multi-agency investigation led to the arrest of an east central Mississippi woman last week for illegal drug importation. The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents...
MDOC makes another contraband bust, this time at Alcorn County
by Sarah Ulmer
It’s the 15th shakedown this year and the Mississippi Department of Corrections is considering it the largest contraband bust that they’ve had. ...
Eighth shakedown of the year uncovers more contraband
by Sarah Ulmer
Mississippi Department of Corrections officers found fewer, but much of the same kind of contraband items during an unannounced shakedown at Winston-Choctaw County Correctional Facility...