Miss. Prison Reform Coalition Responds to Gov. Reeves’ Announcement of Parchman Unit 29 Closure

By CJ Lawrence

Last Friday, we held a rally at the State Capitol attended by over 600 people to demand that our elected representatives shut down Parchman and enact prison system reforms. Yesterday, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that the state will be closing the notoriously inhumane Parchman Unit 29, where multiple deaths have occurred in the last month alone.

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