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Latest News

Vocational Village celebrates largest graduation class
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4/22/2025

Blevins reappointed to State Intervention Courts Advisory Committee
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4/18/2025

Division of Victims Services hosts Candlelight Vigil
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4/10/2025

Legislation

SB 2445 Provides for work release programs

HB 757 Provides for housing of inmates in county jails

SB 3039 Provides MDOC appropriations for 2024-2025

HB 844 Requires Parole Board to solicit recommendations prior to hearing

SB 88 Approval of appointment by Governor of Philip Moran to the Mississippi State Parole Board

Mississippi Department of Corrections