A bill proposing to address problems at one of the nation’s most notorious prisons by transferring them to another, more secure, prison died in a Mississippi legislative committee last week.
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The report found violence, gang control and trafficking of contraband had been happening inside Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, South Mississippi Correctional Institution, and Wilkinson County Correctional Facility for years.
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Mississippi is violating the constitutional rights of thousands of people held in three of its prisons, where violence is .