MDOC sanitization efforts making Mississippi prisons among safest for COVID-19

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Major Study of Mississippi Prison Programs is Underway JACKSON – Mississippi’s state prisons, inmates, and programs will be under a microscope for the next two years by two of the country’s leading research universities. The President of Pepperdine University, Jim Gash, and renowned criminal justice researcher, Dr. Byron Johnson at Baylor University, are teaming up to study MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain’s changes to Mississippi’s prisons. The intensive 2-year research project will include Gash, Jo

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INMATES HELPING WITH JACKSON WATER CRISIS Thirty MDOC inmates from the Madison County Community Work Center helped distribute two 18-wheelers of bottled water for the Salvation Army Thursday morning. | Mississippi Department of Corrections

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Education is making a comeback in Mississippi prisons to reach pre-pandemic operations through stepped-up re-entry programs. Today, 39 inmates at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) received their high school equivalency diplomas, commonly known as GEDs or the newer HiSET, after completing years of secondary education coursework. Inmates also completed classes in business technology and apparel and textiles. Also this week, 18 inmates at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman re