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East Arkansas Prison Sees Inmate Stabbed to Death

BRICKEYS, AR (Ben Caxton) -- A prisoner at an East Arkansas prison was stabbed to death over the weekend. According to the Arkansas Department of Corrections 58-year-old Carl Luke Lowe was buffing the floors Sunday night at the East Arkansas Regional Unit ...
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State Ships Inmates It Can’t Guard to Private Prison

PARCHMAN, MS (Ben Caxton) -- 375 inmates from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman are being sent 13 miles away to a private lockup. Prison officials say they don't have enough guards to safely keep the inmates in custody in the wake ...
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Mississippi Prison Funding May Be Cut Despite Riots and Deaths

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) -- Funding cuts, not increases, for state prisons, could be coming as the state rejected a plan to improve the safety of Unit 29 at Parchman where an inmate died. 36-year old Denorris Howell had been convicted of ...
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Prison Crisis Top Topic As Legislature Goes to Work

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) -- Discussion of Mississippi's prison crisis is front and center as Mississippi's legislature gets back to work this week in Jackson. Governor Phil Bryant says the state has command and control of state prisons but the legislature has ...
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Second Parchman Prison Escapee Back in Custody

PARCHMAN, MS (Ben Caxton) -- 27-year old prison escapee Dillion Williams is back in custody. Williams and 42-year old David May escaped from the Mississippi State Prison at Parchman on Saturday. May was captured Sunday in the GMC truck the inmates stole ...
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Death Toll to Five in Mississippi Prison Gang Violence

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) -- All Mississippi state prisons went on lockdown after five inmates died last week and two escaped on Saturday. 42-year old David May and 27-year old Dillion Williams were discovered missing from Parchman during an "emergency count" early ...
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Prison Riots Claim 4th Victim As Lockdown Continues

PARCHMAN, MS (Ben Caxton) -- Another Mississippi prison inmate is dead in what has been a week of violence that's led to a statewide lockdown of all public and private facilities in Mississippi. The latest death happened at the Mississippi State Penitentiary ...
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Pelicia Hall out As Commissioner Of Mississippi’s Prison System

JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) -- Hidden in the news of the latest statewide prison lockdown on New Year's Eve was an announcement by Pelicia Hall, the commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, who said she is resigning the post. Hall will ...
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Horn Lake Man Headed to Prison for Tennessee Crimes

MEMPHIS, TN (Ben Caxton) -- A Horn Lake man has been sentenced to federal prison for kidnapping and raping six women in Tennessee. 46-year-old Michael Love received six life sentences and an additional 20 years in prison for attempting to rape a ...
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