But another scandal was already brewing in his county jail. Mississippi department of corrections officials declined multiple requests for an interview about killings across the prison system, but released an emailed statement “mdoc remains committed to ensuring the safety of inmates in its custody,” the agency wrote. Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay drenched towels strategically across. Conditions at three mississippi department of corrections prisons violated the u.s Constitution, a justice department report released on wednesday concluded.
On saturday, may 10, 2025, sometime between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m., a violent and coordinated inmate assault took place inside central mississippi correctional facility’s receiving & classification (r&c) unit, section 4 The details are chilling—and they’ve been deliberately buried by prison leadership. Former inmates and guards said the violence at the rankin county jail created a culture of fear and was widely accepted by officials as a way of keeping order, an investigation by mississippi today and the new york times has found.
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