Inmate serving life in South Mississippi Correctional Institution dies
Inmate serving life for two sex crimes pronounced dead Tuesday Share Updated: 7:03 AM CST Feb 3, 2021 SOURCE: MDOC
Inmate serving life for two sex crimes pronounced dead Tuesday Share Updated: 7:03 AM CST Feb 3, 2021 An inmate who was serving life at the South Mississippi Correctional institution for two sex crimes has died.Timothy Walters, 61, was pronounced dead Tuesday at Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Walters pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 1993 to rape and sexual assault in Jones County.The cause and the manner of death are pending an autopsy. The determination is made by local coroners independent of MDOC.
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections has announced the deaths of four inmates so far in 2021, and a private prison company has announced the death of one. An autopsy was to be done on each.
The department on Tuesday announced two deaths that occurred at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. Caden Britt, 24, was pronounced dead Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to sexual battery on April 1, 2019, in Pontotoc County and was serving a three-year sentence. O.C. Brown, 67, died Monday. He was serving a life sentence on a murder conviction in Walhall County. Brown was sentenced Feb. 5, 2003, in Walthall County.
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.
âBy selling the same cigarettes that are allowed to free people, we are breaking the contraband tobacco trade, designating smoking areas outside, clearing the air inside for the majority of inmates who donât smoke, reducing inmate contraband violations, and recouping for taxpayers some of the dollars it takes to run prisons,â Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said.