najbardziej-odległe: Mississippi State Penitentiary

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Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km2) of land, Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, and is the state's oldest prison. Begun with four stockades in 1901, the Mississippi Department of Corrections facility was constructed largely by state prisoners. It has beds for 4,840 inmates. Inmates work on the prison farm and in manufacturing workshops. It holds male offenders classified at all custody levels—A and B custody (minimum and me…

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Telling the Truth Through Fiction: Jesmyn Ward and Parchman, Mississippi State Penitentiary

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Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary

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On Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison. This article analyzes a neglected historical experiment in prison democracy at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole in 1973, when incarcerated people assumed responsibility for key aspects of institutional governance following a prison officer strike. Drawing on extensive archival materials produced by civilian observers, incarcerated participants, and correctional staff, the article reconstructs how inmate participation, collective deliberation, and self-rule operated inside a maximum-security prison.The article contrasts two competing interpretive frameworks. The dominant liberal account of p…

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Parchman Women Write the Blues? What Became of Black Women’s Prison Music in Mississippi in the 1930s

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Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta

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Curtis Giovanni Flowers (May 29, 1970 – October 7, 2026) was an American man who was wrongly imprisoned for over 22 years while he was tried for the same murders six times by the same prosecutor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Four of the trials resulted in convictions, all of which were overturned on appeal for repeated prosecutorial misconduct. Flowers was alleged to have committed the July 16, 1996, shootings of four people inside Tardy Furniture store in Winona, Mississippi, United States. Flowers was first convicted in 1997; in five of the six trials, the prosecutor, Montgomery County District Attorney Doug Evans, sought the death penalty against Flowers. As a result, Flowers was hel…

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Sunflower County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,971, and was estimated to be 22,893 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is Indianola. Sunflower County comprises the Indianola, MS Micropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Cleveland-Indianola, MS Combined statistical area. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region. Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) is located in Sunflower County.

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Drew is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Drew had a population of 1,852. Drew is in the vicinity of several plantations and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a Mississippi Department of Corrections prison for men. It is noted for being the site of several racist murders, including the lynching of Joe Pullen in 1923 and of Emmett Till in 1955.

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The Louisiana State Penitentiary is a maximum-security correctional facility in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. It is the largest maximum-security correctional facility in the United States, with 5,000 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance workers, social workers, nurses, educators, deputy wardens, and the warden himself. The current warden is Darrel Vannoy, who was appointed to the role in 2024, after having previously served as warden between 2016 and 2021, following long-time warden Burl Cain's resignation. Located in West Feliciana Parish, the correctional facility is set between oxbow lakes on t…

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Another Mississippi Sunday Morning is an album of gospel and blues songs, sung by inmates at Parchman Prison. The recordings were made live at a chapel service in February 2024, and the album was released by Glitterbeat Records, a subsidiary of Glitterhouse Records, on January 17, 2025.

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Wilkinson County Correctional Center (WCCC) is a private prison in unincorporated Wilkinson County, Mississippi, managed since July 2013 by Management and Training Corporation (MTC) on a five-year contract with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Established as a low to medium-security prison, it was converted to a maximum-security prison when prisoners were transferred in 2010 from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. It has struggled since then with increasing levels of violence and murders of inmates. The prison facility has an authorized capacity of 900; it occupies 17.5 acres (7.1 ha) of enclosed area. The prison property is in total 97.5 acres (39.5 ha). As of Novemb…