Understaffed, underfunded and plagued by gang violence. Lawmakers have known for decades. Now, everyone is paying the price.
One prisoner strangled another to death while other inmates cheered the killing. Two convicts escaped a dilapidated building by walking out an open door. Maximum-security detainees freely roamed hallways, beating and threatening others.
Violence has roiled the Mississippi prison system for more than a week, with state corrections officials imposing a statewide lockdown and a county coroner declaring that gangs in the prisons have launched an all-out war against each other.
At the center of the chaos: the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman — one of America’s most notorious prisons. Since July, seven prisoners have been killed by fellow inmates at what is supposed to be the most secure facility in the state. That compares to four inmate killings in the prior eight years.
The current violence comes after years of neglect by state officials, who allowed conditions at Parchman to deteriorate when federal courts ended oversight of the facility in 2011, according to an investigation by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica.
Inmates described themselves as being prey to prison gangs who control the supply of contraband drugs and weapons, bedding, food and cellular phones. Photographs and videos reviewed by news organizations show the most dangerous inmates, identified by their red-and-white striped uniforms, walking freely outside their cells, with no guards in sight.
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Website: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2020/01/08/parchman-prison-riot-mississippi-violence-deterioration-underfunding/2824006001/
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