An investigation into a shooting at the Issaquena County Correctional Facility is underway, but local investigators have yet to confirm details nearly a week later.

The state of Mississippi and its corrections department “routinely violates the constitutional rights of people incarcerated ... by failing to protect them from widespread physical violence,” ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Mississippi is violating the constitutional rights of thousands of people held in three of its prisons, where violence is pervasive and the use of solitary confinement leads to ...