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Staff at Larch Corrections Center will hold a town hall Thursday evening in Battle Ground as part of their efforts to keep the facility open.

Mississippi — the world’s leader in imprisoning people — will soon skyrocket past its capacity to hold them all.

After the Department of Corrections stripped imprisoned Indigenous people of religious freedoms in 2010, the organization Huy stepped in to advocate for them.

After the Department of Corrections stripped imprisoned Indigenous people of religious freedoms in 2010, the organization Huy stepped in to advocate for them.

Neglect and mistreatment of the mentally ill are endemic to the U.S. penal system, resulting in violence against inmates, as well as death.

By Jerry Mitchell Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Jan 1, 2021  (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, File) This is a July 12, 2002 file photo of the entrance to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Miss. Rogelio Solis Mississippi officials are hoping that lifting the ban on smoking inside prison will help curb the huge contraband trade that some inmates estimate may run in the millions. “By selling the same cigarettes that are all...