Lambert is a town in Quitman County,Mississippi. The population was 1,638 at the 2010 census.
Senatobia is a city in and the county seat of Tate County,Mississippi,United States,and is the 16th largest municipality in the Memphis Metropolitan Area. The population was 8,165 at the 2010 census. Senatobia is home to Northwest Mississippi Community College,a state community college providing two-year academic and technical degree programs. Also located in Senatobia is the Baddour Center,a residential care facility for intellectually disabled adults.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) is a state agency of Mississippi that operates prisons. It has its headquarters in Jackson. As of 2020 Burl Cain is the commissioner.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections (DOC),formerly the Arkansas Department of Correction,is the state law enforcement agency that oversees inmates and operates state prisons within the U.S. state of Arkansas. DOC consists of two divisions,the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) and the Arkansas Division of Community Corrections (DCC),as well as the Arkansas Correctional School District. ADC is responsible for housing and rehabilitating people convicted of crimes by the courts of Arkansas. ADC maintains 20 prison facilities for inmates in 12 counties. DCC is responsible for adult parole and probation and offender reentry.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety &Corrections. It is named "Angola" after the former slave plantation that occupied this territory. The plantation was named after the country of Angola,from which many slaves originated before arriving in Louisiana.
Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP),also known as Parchman Farm,is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County,Mississippi,in the Mississippi Delta region. Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km2) of land,Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi,and is the state's oldest prison.
A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison,or a unit within prisons,which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.
The Cummins Unit is an Arkansas Department of Corrections prison in unincorporated Lincoln County,Arkansas,United States,in the Arkansas Delta region. It is located along U.S. Route 65,near Grady,Gould,and Varner,28 miles (45 km) south of Pine Bluff,and 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Little Rock.
Gates v. Collier,501 F.2d 1291,was a landmark decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that brought an end to the trusty system as well as flagrant inmate abuse at Mississippi State Penitentiary,also known as Parchman Farm,in Sunflower County,Mississippi. It was the first case in a body of law developed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a variety of forms of corporal punishment against prisoners constituted cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of Eighth Amendment rights. This case was also the first broad-scale intervention by a court in the supervision of prison practices.
Nathan Burl Cain is the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish,north of Baton Rouge,Louisiana. He worked there for twenty-one years,from January 1995 until his resignation in 2016.
The "trusty system" was a penitentiary system of discipline and security enforced in parts of the United States until the 1980s,in which designated inmates were given various privileges,abilities,and responsibilities not available to all inmates.
William Colbert Keady was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Keady is best-known for his role in the landmark court case,Gates v. Collier.
The Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) is a Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison for men and women located in an unincorporated area in Rankin County,Mississippi,United States,between the cities of Pearl and Brandon. The 171-acre (69 ha) prison was,for a period of time,the only state prison to hold female prisoners in Mississippi,in addition to minimum and medium security male offenders. It operates as the female death row of the state.
Oakley Youth Development Center (OYDC),formerly known as Oakley Training School is a juvenile correctional facility of the Mississippi Department of Human Services located in unincorporated Hinds County,Mississippi,near Raymond. It is Mississippi's sole juvenile correctional facility for children adjudicated into the juvenile correctional system.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
A prison cemetery is a graveyard reserved for the dead bodies of prisoners. Generally,the remains of inmates who are not claimed by family or friends are interred in prison cemeteries and include convicts executed for capital crimes.
Christopher B. Epps is a federal inmate and a former commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) and career employee in the state criminal justice system though he started his career as a teacher. Appointed as Commissioner in 2002 and serving until 2014,he served under three governors and was the agency's longest-serving commissioner in its history. Epps came up within the department as a 32-year career employee.
Wilkinson County Correctional Center (WCCC) is a private prison in unincorporated Wilkinson County,Mississippi,managed since July 2013 by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) on a five-year contract with the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Managed access is managing cellular network access from contraband phones within a corrections facility. Managed access differs from cellular jamming technologies,which are outlawed in the United States. A managed access system functions like a femtocell or low-power cell tower which passes calls to cellular carriers;however,only communications from approved devices and emergency calling are allowed. The managed access signal appears as an extension of nearby commercial cellular signals;once a phone connects to the network its identifying information is compared with approved devices and communications are accepted or denied. Managed access networks work with commercial cellular signals including 2G,3G,4G/LTE,and WiMAX.
Sarita Simmons is an American politician,serving in the Mississippi State Senate from the 13th district since 2020.
