Mississippi Department of Corrections is suspending all visitation in state prisons due to COVID-19 surge
“With two-thirds of the state still unvaccinated, we have to protect inmates from outbreaks on the outside,” said Commissioner Burl Cain.
Credit: WATN Published: 7/27/2021 5:31:45 PM Updated: 5:32 PM CDT July 27, 2021
JACKSON, Miss Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain announced today that to protect Mississippi’s 17,300 prisoners,
MDOC is
suspending all visitation in state prisons until further notice to diminish the possibility of infection from the COVID Delta variant.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that the seven-day moving average of COVID cases shot up 46.7-percent in one week.[1] Hospitalizations rose 32.2-percent in the same period. CDC reports that the Delta variant accounts for 83-percent of new cases and 93-percent of those come from unvaccinated groups. As of Monday, Mississipp
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By Jade Bulecza
Jul 22, 2021 | 6:16 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In February, Disability Rights in Mississippi released a report after visiting and investigating the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) for two years. Their conclusion: the human rights of those with disabilities are being violated through the lack of mental care and health care.
“We notified our state legislature, our governor. We notified our facilities again, and at every turn, we’ve been met with silence or indifference or failure to address the issues going on in these facilities,” said Jane Walton, Communications Director of Disability Rights Mississippi.
The agency has monitored several MDOC facilities with a focus on the most populated ones: The Mississippi State Penetiary, South Mississippi Correctional Institution and Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.