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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 · The problem of gangs controlling beds at SMCI has become so common that prison Superintendent Joe Errington told officers in a recent memo to cite inmates who did this with a rules violation...
Aug 19, 2019 · 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. Rather than counting inmates, as required, some guards are reportedly falsifying counts, an internal prison memo says.
Jul 1, 2020 · It escalated into what officials called a “gang war” after South Mississippi Correctional Institution (SMCI) prisoner Terrandance Dobbins, a Gangster Disciples member, was killed and two others were injured. According to officials, prisoners used cellphones to spread news of the war.
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...
- Parker Boyd
Feb 28, 2024 · The three prisons the DOJ investigated -- Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, South Mississippi Correctional Institution and Wilkinson County Correctional Facility, are "rampant" with drugs, violence and corruption, the Justice Department concluded.
- Luke Barr
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Feb 28, 2024 · The U.S. Justice Department says Mississippi is failing to protect inmates in three prisons from violence because it does not adequately supervise incarcerated people, control contraband or investigate harm and misconduct.
Feb 6, 2020 · The problems are systemic and a direct result of elected state officials underfunding MDOC, enforcing mass incarceration and extreme punitive measures, and their overall neglect of underserved ...
