Parchman News

Mississippi corrections officials have opened a six-bed ward to provide hospice care to inmates at the state penitentiary at Parchman.

Mississippi's state mental hospital has treated numerous felons over the years, and there's no reason for state officials to disregard a federal judge's order to send death row inmate James Billiot there, his lawyers argue.

We are at war. On one side are all the hard-working, law-abiding Americans who still have jobs and health insurance.

HE'S A convicted felon who served two long terms in Parchman for selling cocaine, a total of 15 years behind bars, and he came out the last time bound and determined that the rest of his life was going to be different.

On Thanksgiving Day, 28 years ago, James E. Billiot bludgeoned his family to death in the Leetown Community.

Editor's Note: The following is the second in a series of stories about Stokes McMillian's upcoming book, "One Night of Madness." The book chronicles the lives of several Newport and area families leading up to the murder of a black family at the hands Leon Turner and his accomplishes in 1950.

The black-and-white images of bluesmen'and women'of the Mississippi Delta look as if they had been taken in the 1930s or '40s, when some of the blues songs were first recorded.

Just two hours into his second day on the job at a Vicksburg truck stop, 17-year-old Phillip Morson was shot and killed by a co-worker, Alvin Cessna.

Scott Cagle, left, the extension director for Chickasaw County, helped Master Gardeners Glen Chisolm, Virginia Rowlett and John Walden beautify an overgrown lot in downtown Houston.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is full of convicted felons. It also is full of voters.

Thanks to a 24-year-old bullet wound, Robbie Pipkin can't feel anything below his knees.

Three correction officers are charged with smuggling marijuana and cell phones into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Three corrections officers are charged with smuggling marijuana and cell phones into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, officials say.

Corey Carter could hear snippets of music in his head - a calm and subtle melody that hadn't found its shape.

Authorities say three correction officers have been charged with smuggling contraband into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

In some ways, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's extension center graduation May 20 mirrored any other seminary graduation ceremony.

The Associated Press: Mississippi State Penitentiary inmate Michael Anthony Wilson shakes the hand of Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary's Christian Ministry program in Parchman, Miss.

Eugene Anderson might be new to fighting and surviving cancer, but on Sunday the 49-year-old Parchman native found a large and supportive family of fellow survivors.

PARCHMAN - For the 28 men who were awarded their bachelor's degree in Christian Ministry on May 20 at a ceremony in western Mississippi, the decision to pursue higher education did not come without risks.