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- The DOJ says chronic understaffing has led to unsafe conditions. Over a two-year period, the DOJ reviewed 100 reported assaults or fights at the SMCI where prisoners have been stabbed and raped. Data shows up to a third of the inmates were confirmed gang members, and those gangs run their own city inside.
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Aug 19, 2019 · At South Mississippi Correctional Institution, inmates have been on perpetual lockdown for seven months and gangs enforce rules. With frequent beatings, burnings and escapes, the prison has...
Feb 29, 2024 · LEAKESVILLE, Miss. (WLOX) - According to an investigation by the Department of Justice, widespread violence and gangs are flourishing inside the walls of the Southern Mississippi Correctional...
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Aug 19, 2019 · And nowhere is that more apparent than at South Mississippi Correctional Institution. The prison struggles to meet the fundamental duties of a correctional facility, with surging violence and, now, a lockdown barring visits entering its seventh month.
Jul 1, 2020 · Share: Prisons beset with gang-related violence, overcrowding, understaffing and weak funding. by David M. Reutter. Between late last year and early April 2020, more than 30 Mississippi prisoners died due togang violence, suicide or illness – over 10 times the average of 3.4 prisoner deaths per year between 2014 and 2018.
Feb 28, 2024 · JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gangs, violence and sexual assaults are a problem in three Mississippi prisons because the facilities are short-staffed and inmates are sometimes left unsupervised, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a report Wednesday.
Apr 20, 2022 · The U.S. Justice Department says it has found “severe, systemic” problems at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. The department on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, released findings of its two-year investigation of Parchman, which began after an outburst of violence that left some inmates dead and others injured.
Feb 6, 2020 · The letter noted “accounts of gang control at SMCI are particularly egregious and shocking: people report that gangs assign residents to cells and beds, overriding the formal MDOC assignments;...
