United States · MS · Parchman
Mississippi State Penitentiary
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Gallery
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Photo by Mississippi Department of Corrections via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by United States Geological Survey (USGS) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Mississippi Department of Corrections via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Mississippi Department of Archives and History via Wikimedia Commons (No restrictions)
Photo by Mark Low! from Brooklyn, NY, USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Photo by Robert Pollack from Santa Fe, NM, USA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
Photo by United States Geological Survey (USGS) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by United States Geological Survey (USGS) via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1901
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
Mississippi Department of Corrections
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1901
Region
MS
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
38%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.