‘We have it under control as best we can’: Inmates claim that gangs run Mississippi prison

By Zach Halaschak

Published January 7, 2020 5:02pm ET

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‘We have it under control as best we can’: Inmates claim that gangs run Mississippi prison — In this May 19, 2010 photograph, traffic moves past the front of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. On Friday, June 4, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to dismiss its lawsuit against the Mississippi Department of Corrections over conditions at the maximum security Unit 32 on the Parchman campus, after having reached a proposed agreement with the MDOC to shutter the facility at the state penitentiary. | (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

Inmates at one understaffed Mississippi prison claim that gangs rule the facility where three people were recently killed.

At Mississippi State Penitentiary, an all-male prison in Parchman, Mississippi, three inmates were killed by other prisoners over a three-day period, according to CBS News. Two other inmates, who have since been caught, escaped last week as the facility grappled with riots and unrest.

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