Senate Corrections Chairman Juan Barnett's effort to close Mississippi State Penitentiary has died for a second year.

These Mississippians convicted in the U.S. Capitol insurrection are included in President Trump's massive pardon regarding ...

A proposed penalty to Mississippi’s rape law may punish certain criminals in ways that raise constitutional issues. Under Mississippi law, adults convicted of statutory rape of a child under the age ...

A woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison after she pled guilty to three counts of filing fraudulent tax returns to the ...

More than a year after a state-appointed court in Jackson, Mississippi, became law and lawsuits were dismissed challenging ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte is asking lawmakers for 500 additional beds at the Deer Lodge prison. With the state prison full, more ...

The legislation introduced by state Sen. Bradford Blackmon would make it unlawful for “a person to discharge genetic material ...

Officials say transferring the prisoners is a necessary step to manage prison populations and make needed upgrades and ...

Mississippi lawmakers will consider requiring state prisons to provide inmates on work assignments with protective gear.

A Mississippi district attorney proposed new legislation Wednesday to pay bounty hunters a reward for helping to deport ...