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    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
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    the vicinity of several plantations and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a Mississippi Department of Corrections prison for men. It is noted for being...
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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    the commissioner. In 1843 a penitentiary in four city squares in central Jackson was developed as Mississippi's first state prison. The prison in Jackson...
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    are not housed in solitary confinement) Mississippi Mississippi State Penitentiary – Sunflower County, Mississippi (Unit 32) Missouri Jefferson City Correctional...
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  • the first prison facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections outside of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. Upon the...
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    row are held at Unit 29 in The Mississippi State Penitentiary, while women on death row are held at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF)...
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    Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region. Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) is located in Sunflower County...
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  • and Texas. The method of controlling and working inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was designed in 1901 to replace convict leasing...
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    prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession...
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    The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX), commonly known as ADX Florence or the Florence Supermax, is an American...
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    arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman...
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  • closed conditions). The first state to implement conjugal visits was Mississippi in the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman). It was enacted to convince...
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  • (9/51). September 3, 2009. Retrieved on September 1, 2010. "Kentucky State Penitentiary Prepares For 165th Execution Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest prison farm covering 18,000 acres (7,300 hectares); it is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. Canada...
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    The Missouri State Penitentiary was a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, that operated from 1836 to 2004. Part of the Missouri Department of Corrections...
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    cemeteries, Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Sunflower County, Mississippi South Carolina State Cemetery, a.k.a. Penitentiary Cemetery (nicknamed...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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  • August 16, 2010. "Division of Institutions State Prisons Archived 2002-12-06 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections. April 21, 2010...
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    had been convicted in Jackson, Mississippi. Many were jailed in Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Mississippi employed the trusty system, a hierarchical...
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  • was moved into the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. In 2010, Woodham made a request to Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, asking...
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    High School shooting. Currently serving a life sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Kip Kinkel (1982–), an Oregon boy who was convicted of killing...
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    (CWC) in an area near Lambert. In addition MDOC operates the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, in...
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    S. Route 49W. Ruleville is about 15 miles (24 km) from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman). As of the 2020 United States Census, there were...
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  • Maine State Prison, a former prison in Thomaston, Maine Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Jackson, Michigan Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman...
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  • John B. Nixon (category 21st-century executions by Mississippi)
    execution by lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. It was the seventh execution by the state of Mississippi since the Gregg v. Georgia decision...
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  • Willie Jerome Manning (category Mississippi State University)
    Jerome "Fly" Manning (born June 12, 1968) is on death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, with two death sentences for a conviction of double murder...
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  • Donald Leroy Evans (category Deaths by stabbing in Mississippi)
    stabbed to death in 1999 by a fellow death row inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary while in the shower. Ira Jean Smith (female, 38, March 7, 1985)...
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    The Chamber (novel) (category Capital punishment in Mississippi)
    convicted and sentenced to death by lethal gas. He is sent to the Mississippi State Penitentiary and placed on death row. Now without a lawyer, Sam becomes a...
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