Roc Nation has partnered with A&E Network to create a docuseries Exposing Parchman exploring the Mississippi correctional system. According to a press release, the four-part program follows the long ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Barnett ...

Lawyers representing inmates inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman filed a second lawsuit in federal court early Wednesday on behalf of 152 inmates who they say have been denied ...

Roc Nation is producing a documentary series about the infamous Parchman prison, which was sued by Jay-Z and others over inhumane conditions. A&E greenlighted a Roc Nation-produced documentary series ...

A&E Network has greenlit the four-part limited documentary series “Exposing Parchman” following the long efforts to reform the Mississippi correctional system, led by the inmates of Parchman Prison.

Following a string of inmate deaths at Mississippi’s correctional facilities, lawyers representing some 152 inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary (also known as Parchman) have filed a complaint in ...

The state prison at Parchman casts a long shadow in both Mississippi’s and this country’s creative imagination. The notorious prison farm – known most recently for being the prison where nine inmates ...

In February a man allegedly wrapped a rope around his neck and laid down in his cell at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. A fellow prisoner next door called out his name, and when he ...

An inmate at a Mississippi prison was found hanging in his cell by two corrections officers over the weekend and pronounced dead, a coroner said Sunday. Coroner Heather Burton said she was called ...

Next month's issue of GOVERNING features a cover story about the reform of one of the nation's most fabled prisons, Mississippi's Parchman Farm. Founded in 1903 as a 16,000-acre working plantation, it ...

Federal oversight of Parchman ended in 2011. Conditions have been deteriorating since then. Inmates walk freely outside cells with no guards in sight. Shortage of correctional officers called ...