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Press Releases

Title Date
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
Sanitation efforts making Mississippi prisons among safest for COVID-19 01/20/2021
Seminary program launched for women at Central MS prison 01/15/2021
MDOC turns contraband tobacco into community and inmate help 12/23/2020
MDOC Commissioner responds to state audit 12/18/2020
Electronic leg bracelet leads police to prison contraband smugglers 12/15/2020
COVID-19 Retesting at South Mississippi Prison 12/11/2020
Contraband intercepted at South Mississippi Prison 12/08/2020
More COVID-19 testing planned at SMCI 11/24/2020
COVID outbreak identified at Marshall County Correctional Facility 11/13/2020
MDOC employee wins 2020 Excellence in State Government Award 11/05/2020
Contraband Raid at Parchman Nets Drugs, Phones, Liquor 11/03/2020
No outbreak of COVID-19 in Mississippi prisons; among safest in U.S. 10/29/2020
$69,000 of illegal funds seized from inmates 10/22/2020
Commissioner tightens security at Parchman Prison, promotes recruiting, better training 10/14/2020
Commissioner Cain probes inmate education with community colleges 10/08/2020