Posts tagged East Mississippi Correctional Facility

Will prison contraband go up in smoke when Mississippi’s tobacco ban ends? Will it mean higher health care costs?

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.

Mississippi News, Prison, Prison ReformKatherine MitchellDecember 29, 2020prison, prison reform, contraband, smoking, tobacco ban, cigarettes, Burl Cain, East Mississippi Correctional Facility, prison gangs, MDOC

Gang-control allegations at Wilkinson prison mirrored in East Mississippi lawsuit

A November audit that concluded officials at the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility had ceded control to gang leaders mirrors litigation against another privately run Mississippi prison where gangs allegedly were controlling the prison’s housing units and inmates were doing their own cell counts.

Prison, Prison ReformKatherine MitchellJuly 15, 2019Prison gangs, Private prisons, Wilkinson, East Mississippi Correctional Facility, EMCF, prison deaths, prison weapons, Southern Poverty Law Center, Correctional Officers, overcrowding in prisons, prison staffing, prison violence, mississippi center for investigative reporting