The Mississippi Department of Corrections wants the Legislature ... others being imprisoned for a long-running bribery and kickback scheme that prosecutors said tainted nearly $1 billion in MDOC ...

A Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) probation agent is under investigation and could be headed to jail.

It should be used to help prevent long-running bribery and kickback schemes that tainted nearly $1 billion in MDOC contracts using taxpayers' money. More: Prisons Commissioner Chris Epps had way ...

Understaffing is one of the biggest issues faced by Mississippi prisons as in other parts of the country, MDOC said in its response to a DOJ report. MDOC disputes Department of Justice findings ...

Rep. Williams-Barnes wants to see changes in MDOC staffing, funding. State representatives are working to improve correctional facilities after five Mississippi inmates died in one week.

At least 10 people have died in the past month in MDOC facilities, authorities said. Lawrence is questioning the narrative around the deaths. "What type of conditions must someone be living in that ...

MDOC data indicated that racial disparities exist on death row. Black residents make up 37.8% of Mississippi’s population, but 60% of all prisoners within the MDOC system.

A 41-year-old man incarcerated at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County died Thursday of an apparent overdose. Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain ...

Trigg escaped from the Scott County Jail in 2017 while in MDOC custody there. Lici Beveridge is a reporter for the Hattiesburg American and Clarion Ledger . Contact her at [email protected] .