Feb. 19, 2020

Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition Responds To Gov. Tate Reeves' Announcement Of Parchman Unit 29 Closure

by Charles Douglas Owens, II (author's profile)

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Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition Responds to Gov. Tate Reeves’ Announcement of Parchman Unit 29 Closure
By CJ Lawrence

Full Statement Via MS Prison Reform Coalition:

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

While we are hopeful that Gov. Reeves will follow through with this promise, we can not ignore the fact that he failed to provide a detailed plan for closure for the entirety of the Parchman Mississippi State Penitentiary, which continues to be plagued with overcrowding, inadequate heat, lack of running water and sanitation, crumbling walls and violence; the urgent transfer of the 325 incarcerated men who remain housed in Units 9 and 30; and the comprehensive policy reforms that will remedy the system-wide failures that have resulted in the current humanitarian and legal crises as well as the ongoing threats to the safety and well-being of the men and women in the state’s care and those it employs.

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