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In what was once a prison system heavily populated with gang members, facilities under the purview of the Mississippi Department of Corrections have seen a drastic decrease in the gang population, according to Commissioner Burl Cain. Cain was appointed to commissionership of MDOC in 2020 by Governor Tate Reeves to.
Mississippi Department of Corrections is suspending all visitation in state prisons due to COVID-19 surge
“With two-thirds of the state still unvaccinated, we have to protect inmates from outbreaks on the outside,” said Commissioner Burl Cain.
Credit: WATN Published: 7/27/2021 5:31:45 PM Updated: 5:32 PM CDT July 27, 2021
JACKSON, Miss Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain announced today that to protect Mississippi’s 17,300 prisoners,
MDOC is
suspending all visitation in state prisons until further notice to diminish the possibility of infection from the COVID Delta variant.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that the seven-day moving average of COVID cases shot up 46.7-percent in one week.[1] Hospitalizations rose 32.2-percent in the same period. CDC reports that the Delta variant accounts for 83-percent of new cases and 93-percent of those come from unvaccinated groups. As of Monday, Mississipp