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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.
State inmate convicted in Monroe County died while hospitalized
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Posted: Dec 29, 2020 12:45 PM
Posted By: Zac Carlisle
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) - A state inmate convicted in Monroe County died while hospitalized, the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) announced Monday.
James Boggan, 68, who was housed at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution, was pronounced dead Thursday night at Promise Hospital in Vicksburg.
James Boggan | Source: Mississippi Department of Corrections
Cody A. Martin | Source: Mississippi Department of Corrections
Boggan was convicted of two counts of rape and sexual assault in Monroe County and was serving a life sentence.
He was sentenced on Sept. 10, 1997, for rape and assault and again on Nov. 30, 1998, for the second rape.
JACKSON, Miss. ⢠An inmate was pronounced dead Monday at a privately run prison in Mississippi after an officer found him lying unresponsive on a floor.
Medical workers at East Mississippi Correctional Facility did CPR on Gary Long until paramedics arrived, according to a news release Tuesday from Management & Training Corporation, the company that operates the prison. Long, 35, was pronounced dead at the prison.
The news release said no foul play was suspected in the death, and an autopsy will be done. Long was serving a 10-year sentence for possession of precursor with intent to manufacture in Tate County. He was sentenced Sept. 16, 2011.