Posts tagged overcrowding in prisons

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

Wilkinson County prison in Mississippi put gangs in charge

It was a prison brimming with violence, awash in weapons -- and severely short on guards to patrol its cell blocks.

Prison Reform, PrisonKatherine MitchellJune 26, 2019Private prisons, Prison weapons, Southern Poverty Law Center, Correctional Officers, Prison Understaffing, Prison gangs, prison violence, overcrowding in prisons, prison staffing, mississippi prisons, wilkinson country prison, mississippi center for investigative reporting