Prisons

Rallygoers at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Miss. carry signs protesting conditions in prisons where inmates have been killed in violent clashes in recent weeks.

'We Can Do Better.' Mississippi Governor Orders Closure of State Prison's Ward After String of Deaths

Gov. Reeves called for the closure of Unit 29 at the Mississippi State Peni...

Gov. Reeves called for the closure of Unit 29 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where multiple inmates have died, many of them a result of violent fights

In this July 21, 2010 photo, employees leave the front gate of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss.

2 Inmates Killed in Mississippi Prison That Continues to Struggle With Deadly Violence

Three additional inmates also recently died at Mississippi State Penitentia...

Three additional inmates also recently died at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman

Inmates at Louisiana State Prison in Angola, La., march down a dusty trail on May 30, 1977, en route to working in the fields.

The True History of America's Private Prison Industry

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion priv...

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to...