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Press Releases

Title Date
String Quartet performs for inmates at CMCF 07/21/2022
MDOC ramps up recruiting with salary increases for officers 07/06/2022
Rankin Sheriff, KLLM donate truck trailer to MDOC for re-entry 07/01/2022
Major Study of Mississippi Prison Programs Underway 06/23/2022
MDOC Participating in Governor's 2022 Job Fair 06/21/2022
Mobile Welding Training Center moves to SMCI for new inmate class 05/16/2022
MDOC hosts career fair for youthful offenders 12/21/2021
MDOC to unveil new Mobile Welding Training Center 12/16/2021
MDOC carries out execution of David Neal Cox 11/17/2021
Commissioner holds first press briefing on execution 11/17/2021
Mississippi prisons reopen to visitation 10/21/2021
Mississippi Corrections group aids in Louisiana Ida recovery 10/05/2021
MDOC escapee captured in Ohio 09/14/2021
New leader named at South Mississippi Prison 08/16/2021
MDOC freezes visitation at prisons 07/27/2021
Oversight Task Force holds first meeting toward next session 06/11/2021
MDOC officer arrested in ongoing investigations 06/10/2021
Ruth Graham to lead study for seminary inmates 05/17/2021
Inmates complete college, high school equivalency courses 05/12/2021
King announced as MDOC Director of Private, Regional Prisons 04/14/2021
MDOC names Marc McClure as head of state's largest prison 04/14/2021
Violence down in Mississippi prisons 03/24/2021
Mississippi among first to mass vaccinate prisoners 03/19/2021
MDOC keeping the heat on 02/19/2021
MDOC Commissioner update on prison facilities in winter storm 02/17/2021