January 21, 2020
Virginia Sciolino, a Hattiesburg native, argues that private prisons prevent Mississippi from progressing past mass incarceration to a more humane system. Photo courtesy MDOC
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OPINION: Ugly Mississippi Prison Conditions Need Humanitarian Reforms
The era of mass incarceration involves both prison overcrowding and the nature of private prisons, a controversy to which the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has also been linked.
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