Walnut Grove News

The group wants the Mississippi Department of Corrections to end private prison contracts at the state's youth correctional facilities.

WALNUT GROVE, Miss. -- Mississippi corrections officials are investigating the death of an inmate at the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility.

A former Mississippi mayor and prison warden was sentenced Tuesday to seven months behind bars for telling an inmate to lie to investigators about sex they had in a hotel room in 2009.

Wes Rea loves the long ball, even if his big hits usually fall short of hitting a barbecue grill in... Before he was charged with sexually assaulting an inmate and trying to cover it up, Grady Sims was one of the longest serving mayors in Mississippi and the warden of a private prison in his hometown of Walnut Grove.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections says GEO Group, which operates detention and correctional facilities, will no longer manage three prisons in Mississippi.