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Federal judge greenlights Mississippi execution
Federal judge allows scheduled execution of Mississippi death row inmate Thomas Loden to proceed.
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How Gov. Tate Reeves picked Burl Cain, the controversial former Angola warden, to oversee Mississippi prisons
A search committee narrowed the applicant pool of about 55 down to three finalists, including Cain, and sent the names to Gov. Reeves.
A Louisiana warden resigned under a cloud of misspending. He will now oversee Mississippi’s troubled prisons.
Gov. Tate Reeves appointed Burl Cain, the longtime warden of the Angola State Prison who resigned in 2015, to oversee Mississippi’s prison system.
Mississippi prison crisis: Inmates aren’t the only ones in danger; guards face attacks as their numbers dwindle
Analysis of state records and hundreds of pages of court documents, along with interviews with more than 30 prison employees, reveal a dangerous environment for everyone behind bars. As corrections officers quit, those remaining must guard more and more inmates
Mississippi cut corrections by $215M. Horrid conditions, violent deaths have followed at Parchman
With 16 violent deaths, Parchman sees “level of violence and lethality that we associate with prisons in countries like Brazil and Honduras”
Civil rights probe into Mississippi prisons officially opened, Justice Department confirms
The federal agency will look at conditions inside Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl, and Wilkinson County Correctional Facility
Many Mississippi prisoners kept locked up past release dates due to housing shortage
Many Mississippi prisoners remain incarcerated after they are eligible for release because they lack approved addresses. A task force submitted recommendations to a legislative panel this week that includes increased funding for transitional housing
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