MDOC Commissioner: concerning amount of contraband
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...
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Featured MDOC finds less contraband at Wilkinson prison than in 2017
by Alex Paton
MDOC says Operation Zero Tolerance is working. Fewer shanks and cellphones were found among assorted contraband items at Wilkinson County Correctional Facility a year after...
MDOC Commissioner: Too much contraband
by Alex Paton
More contraband than expected, including canned and leaf tobacco, cellphones, cellphone chargers, and marijuana, were found at a Parchman work camp during a shakedown. The...
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,...
Contraband found at Chickasaw County Regional
A small amount of contraband was recovered from the Chickasaw County Regional Correctional Facility in Houston Tuesday. The Mississippi Department of Corrections said this was...
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...
Another Shakedown, More Shanks, Contraband Found in Mississippi Prison
by kim
MARSHALL COUNTY, Miss.–Another shakedown ended with guards at a state-run prison in Marshall County finding shanks, cell phones and drugs. Wednesday’s search was the fifth...
Shanks, Smokes, Cell Phones Found in “Massive” State Prison Shakedowns
by kim
PHOTOS: Dept. of Corrections PARCHMAN, Miss.–Prisoners in Mississippi have had access to many different kinds of items they are not supposed to have, some of...