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  2. Central Mississippi Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    The Central Mississippi Correctional Facility ( CMCF) is a Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison for men and women located in an unincorporated area in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States, [1] between the cities of Pearl and Brandon. [2] [3] The 171-acre (69 ha) prison was, for a period of time, the only state prison to hold ...

  3. Mississippi Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi Prisons — green=state-operated, red==private (Hover mouse over pog to popup clickable link) The Mississippi Department of Corrections ( MDOC) is a state agency of Mississippi that operates prisons. It has its headquarters in Jackson. [1] As of 2020 Burl Cain is the commissioner.

  4. Richard Gerald Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Death. Imprisoned at. Mississippi State Penitentiary. Richard Gerald Jordan (born May 25, 1946 [1]) is an American man on death row in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of 34-year-old Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank executive. As of 2022, Jordan is the state's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate. Though he admitted to the crime and his ...

  5. Potosi Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Potosi Correctional Center ( PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. [ 3] The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmates. [citation needed] The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison. In 1989 it ...

  6. Inmates battle heat, mold and mice inside Mississippi's ...

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    Before parts of Unit 29 were closed following a spate of inmate deaths and rioting in 2020, it held up to 1,500 prisoners, including death row inmates; the entire prison currently houses about ...

  7. Capital punishment in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    The $41 million Unit 32, the state's designated location for male death row inmates, opened in August 1990. [5] [15] Previously Unit 17 housed MSP's male death row. [16] On March 18, 1998 the legislature made another amendment, removing the gas chamber as a method of execution. [13] The lethal injection table was first used in 2002. [9]

  8. Mississippi State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    The GNIS ID for the "building" is 707754. [2] Mississippi State Penitentiary ( MSP ), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km 2) of land, [3] [4] Parchman is the ...

  9. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 74 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.