Mina Corpuz

Thirty-four men and one woman in Mississippi await a death sentence handed down years ago, sometimes decades ago.

Nolan Wells' family attorney Ben Crump said the family hasn’t filed a lawsuit and that “click bait” has presented preservation letters sent out to various people involved in the investigation as more of a legal threat.

Olinder Calderon is hundreds of miles away from his medically fragile infant son in a Mississippi immigration detention center facing deportation to Guatemala, a country he left nearly 20 years ago.

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In 2022, Walker Montgomery died by suicide after Adebola Festus Adekunle, allegedly posing as another person, convinced him to open a video chat and have a sexual encounter then threatened to send the video out if he didn't pay $1,000.

Temperatures that have hit triple digits are exacerbating conditions in the un-air conditioned housing units of the steel-and-concrete South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville.

California resident Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce and Illinois resident Edward James Porter were indicted Monday and are scheduled to stand trial this fall in Gulfport. Both are charged with a felony that has a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.

Two people from out of state accused of threatening to kill or hurt witnesses in the Nolan Wells death investigation appeared in federal court in Mississippi this week.

Within two hours of Mississippi Today publishing a story about death row men's stories being posted online, prison officials took away their personal tablets.

MAGCOR lacks a documented financial system with internal controls resulting in at least one documented instance of fraud and abuse, according to the Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review.