Roc Nation has partnered with A&E Network to create a docuseries Exposing Parchman exploring the Mississippi correctional system. According to a press release, the four-part program follows the long ...

Roc Nation is producing a documentary series about the infamous Parchman prison, which was sued by Jay-Z and others over inhumane conditions. A&E greenlighted a Roc Nation-produced documentary series ...

A&E Network has greenlit the four-part limited documentary series “Exposing Parchman” following the long efforts to reform the Mississippi correctional system, led by the inmates of Parchman Prison.

The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is so understaffed that inmates sometimes resort to threatening self harm and setting fires to seek help for severely injured or sick men, according to ...

In February a man allegedly wrapped a rope around his neck and laid down in his cell at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. A fellow prisoner next door called out his name, and when he ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Barnett ...

Following a string of inmate deaths at Mississippi’s correctional facilities, lawyers representing some 152 inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary (also known as Parchman) have filed a complaint in ...

Lawyers representing inmates inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman filed a second lawsuit in federal court early Wednesday on behalf of 152 inmates who they say have been denied ...

Some inmates are being moved from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to a nearby private prison, state officials said. Unit 29, where the inmates were initially housed, has "a failing ...

The state prison at Parchman casts a long shadow in both Mississippi’s and this country’s creative imagination. The notorious prison farm – known most recently for being the prison where nine inmates ...

Next month's issue of GOVERNING features a cover story about the reform of one of the nation's most fabled prisons, Mississippi's Parchman Farm. Founded in 1903 as a 16,000-acre working plantation, it ...

The state prison at Parchman casts a long shadow in both Mississippi’s and this country’s creative imagination. The notorious prison farm – known most recently for being the prison where nine inmates ...