MDOC offers prisoners chance to earn degrees
Dozens of men and women are earning college credits behind bars. Cimetrio Davis and Donna Locket are among a number of students who have studied...
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MDOC lifts lockdown at two locations
by Alex Paton
The Mississippi Department of Corrections has lifted their lockdown at two locations. Movement is no longer restricted at Marshall County Correctional Facility and Unit 30...
Featured MDOC prisoners pack meals for hungry kids
by Alex Paton
Approximately 200 inmates at the Marshall County Correctional Facility in Holly Springs are helping to hand pack hundreds of meals for malnourished children around the...
Yazoo officially housing 1,200 prisoners from Puerto Rico
Mississippi has officially accepted 1,200 prisoners from Puerto Rico that were displaced by Hurricane Maria. The prisoners are now being housed at the federal correctional...
State Inmates Continue to Pick Up Your Trash, Work Centers to Stay Open
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–You won’t see those guys in stripes disappear from the side of the road just yet. Four state-operated community work centers for prisoners that...