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    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
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    the vicinity of several plantations and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a Mississippi Department of Corrections prison for men. It is noted for being...
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    Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region. Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) is located in Sunflower County...
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    the commissioner. In 1843 a penitentiary in four city squares in central Jackson was developed as Mississippi's first state prison. The prison in Jackson...
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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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    The Missouri State Penitentiary was a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, that operated from 1836 to 2004. Part of the Missouri Department of Corrections...
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    are not housed in solitary confinement) Mississippi Mississippi State Penitentiary – Sunflower County, Mississippi (Unit 32) Missouri Jefferson City Correctional...
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    United States Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility (abbreviated as USP Florence ADMAX; commonly known as ADX Florence or the Florence...
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  • and Texas. The method of controlling and working inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was designed in 1901 to replace convict leasing...
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  • the first prison facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections outside of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. Upon the...
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    prisoner convicted of rape and murder and imprisoned in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession...
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  • (9/51). September 3, 2009. Retrieved on September 1, 2010. "Kentucky State Penitentiary Prepares For 165th Execution Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • closed conditions). The first state to implement conjugal visits was Mississippi in the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman). It was enacted to convince...
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    entrance of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in unincorporated Sunflower County is about 10 miles (16 km) east of Shelby, along Mississippi Highway 32....
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    row are held at Unit 29 in The Mississippi State Penitentiary, while women on death row are held at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF)...
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    S. Route 49W. Ruleville is about 15 miles (24 km) from the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman). As of the 2020 United States Census, there were...
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  • boundary included Drew, Rome, and the employee residences of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), located in an unincorporated area. It served grades...
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    Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest prison farm covering 18,000 acres (7,300 hectares); it is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi River. Canada...
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    (CWC) in an area near Lambert. In addition MDOC operates the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman) in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, in...
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  • Murder of Leesa Gray (category 2000 in Mississippi)
    Loden Jr. was formally put to death via lethal injection at Mississippi State Penitentiary. When asked if he had any last words before the execution procedure...
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    arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman...
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  • had been convicted in Jackson, Mississippi. Many were jailed in Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Mississippi employed the trusty system, a hierarchical...
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  • (1959) and "Stewball" (1947), performed by Prisoner "22" at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. On February 7, 2016, Beyoncé performed at the Super...
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    had been convicted in Jackson, Mississippi. Many were jailed in Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Mississippi employed the trusty system, a hierarchical...
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    cemeteries, Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), Sunflower County, Mississippi South Carolina State Cemetery, a.k.a. Penitentiary Cemetery (nicknamed...
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  • was moved into the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. In 2010, Woodham made a request to Governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour, asking...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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  • Godbolt is currently confined at Mississippi State Penitentiary in Sunflower County. On March 8, 2024, the Mississippi Supreme Court confirmed the death...
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  • Donald Leroy Evans (category Deaths by stabbing in Mississippi)
    death in 1999 by fellow death row inmate Jimmie Mack at the Mississippi State Penitentiary while in the shower. Mack was originally sent to death row for...
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