Parchman News

Mississippi Gov. Hugh White signs a bill in 1954 providing $2,500 to Archie Henderson , who was wrongly convicted and served time in the state Penitentiary at Parchman for a crime he did not commit.

Law officers were searching for at least two suspects in a robbery of the Duck Hill General Dollar store today.

In Mississippi early in the summer of 2010, emotionally spent jurors, some of them in tears, recommended that Curtis Giovanni Flowers be put to death for a quadruple murder.

A member of the Dixie Mafia who helped authorities solve the Sherry murders over two decades ago could soon die in prison.

Lee joined the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a correctional officer trainee in 1981 and worked his way up the ranks.