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Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km 2) of land, [3] [4] Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, and is the state's oldest prison. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Begun with four stockades in 1901, the Mississippi Department of Corrections facility was constructed largely by state prisoners.
[1] [2] He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime, and sentenced to 60 years in prison. He appealed the verdict, but the sentence was upheld on April 12, 2007, by the Supreme Court of Mississippi. [3] He died in prison on January 11, 2018, at age 93. [4] [5]
In 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. JACKSON, Miss. […] The post Hollis Watkins, jailed repeatedly fighting ...
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob ...
Mississippi on Wednesday started transferring more inmates out of a state prison that has been rocked by deadly violence and that is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. Republican ...
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors was sentenced Thursday to 42 months in prison. U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Sul Ozerden ...