Brian Howey, Mukta Joshi and Nate Rosenfield are reporters for Mississippi Today. They examined the power of sheriffs' offices as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. This ...
Anthony Watts, the 61-year-old pastor of St Mary Missionary Baptist Church in D’Lo, Mississippi, was killed on Monday night when he pulled over to help Dylan Arrington, after the inmate got into a ...
A gruesome revelation in Mississippi is alarming residents of the state and raising calls for an investigation. After over 200 bodies were buried near a local jail in a predominantly Black county, ...
Hernando, Miss. — 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 ...
A survey reveals that most people in Mississippi's county jails wait at least three months or more for trial. Mississippi is among the states without a time limit on how long a person can be jailed ...
One of the four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last weekend was apprehended in Texas on Thursday, as authorities continue their search for the two surviving escaped inmates after confirming ...
RAYMOND, Miss. — One of two inmates who escaped from a Mississippi jail that is under federal scrutiny for poor security and management was captured hours later, while another remained on the loose, ...
No video footage exists of the escape itself, according to the sheriff’s office. The rural Mississippi jail that was the site of an escape involving two murder suspects earlier this month was having ...