Curtis Flowers, tried six times for the same crime, will receive Mississippi’s maximum compensation for wrongful imprisonment. Here’s how much it is.
Author: Lici Beveridge, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
15th state inmate dies amid Mississippi prison crisis, cause under investigation
Jesus Garcia, 39, is the 15th inmate to die in a Mississippi state prison since Dec. 29 and the fifth in little more than a week.
2 inmates missing in Mississippi after riots, deaths at prisons across the state
Two inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman were reported missing early Saturday, amid a week of riots and deaths at prisons across the state.
‘I never thought something like this would happen to me’: Racist graffiti stuns Mississippi restaurant owner
Vikki Layne’s, a popular restaurant in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was vandalized and a racial slur was written on a bathroom mirror.
Mississippi man pleads guilty to cross burning, sentenced to 11 years in federal prison
Louie Revette pleaded guilty in April for his part in burning a cross outside the home of a black family in Seminary, Mississippi.