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The maximum-security facility is located in unincorporated Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, near Tutwiler in the Mississippi Delta. [2] [3] Since its opening with 352 prisoners, the prison has expanded capacity nearly ninefold, holding 2672 inmates by October 2008. It has housed inmates from Wisconsin, Colorado, Hawaii, Wyoming, Vermont, and ...
East Mississippi is the state's main "special needs" facility (for inmates with disabilities and/or severe mental illness). [39] Marshall County Correctional Facility (MCCF)- Operated by GEO Group until June 2012; now under 10-yr contract to MTC. Wilkinson County Correctional Center (WCCC) - Operated by CCA through early 2013; since 2013 by MTC.
Mississippi's largest county is no longer using a section of its jail that has been plagued by fights, escapes and other security problems. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said Monday that 200 ...
The state assigned older prisoners in their early 20s to WGYCF following expansion of the prison to increase its capacity. These changes made conditions more harsh for the younger inmates. [14] [11] By 2006, the town of Walnut Grove annexed the prison site, resulting in an apparent, and dramatic, increase in the city's population, from 488 to ...
A former employee of a Mississippi jail has been arrested and charged in the June escape of Joshua Zimmerman, an inmate who fled to Chicago and was captured there last week after a 15-hour ...
Leake County Sheriff Randy Atkinson points to the site of a fire ravaged house where authorities believe one of the four Hinds County jail escapees is thought to be dead, after engaging in a ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
As of September 1, 2008, South Mississippi Correctional Institution, with a capacity of 3,204, had 3,106 prisoners, making up a total of 21.57% of people within the Mississippi Department of Corrections-operated prisons, county jails, and community work centers. [9]