MDOC shuttles women inmates from metro facility to Delta prison

Incarcerated women are being moved from the state’s designated women’s prison in central Mississippi to a formerly decommissioned prison in the Delta more than a hundreds miles away.

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Burl Cain vows to turn shuttered prison into haven of hope, hell for predators.

If Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain has his way, a shuttered prison will become a haven of hope for addicted inmates — and a hell for inmates that prey on others.

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Second FBI prison probe in six years leads to removal of 10 employees. Staffers reportedly delivered steak, shrimp and meth to inmates.

A federal investigation into allegations of corruption at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility has led to the removal of 10 employees.