An inmate says that no one wanted to listen when he tried repeatedly to confess to a crime at a facility known for violence.

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JACKSON, Miss. – The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into the Mississippi prison system after a string of inmate deaths in the last few months. Federal prosecutors announced ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The deaths of two inmates in separate Mississippi correctional facilities have been confirmed. The first death was reported out of the East Mississippi Correctional Center in ...

Amid the 2020 pandemic, Andrew Jones suffered a series of crises. The one-time youth cheerleading coach in Mississippi's Pine Belt entered an addiction treatment facility. There, he was diagnosed with ...