Foretold 'uprising' hits cash-starved Mississippi prisons

Christopher Epps, a longtime Mississippi Department of Corrections employee, would later go to prison himself for collecting $1.4 million in bribes. Now, with a new governor's inauguration looming and a new prison chief to be selected, Mississippi leaders face choices. Phil Bryant, Mississippi’s outgoing governor, on Monday blamed gangs operating inside the prison system, saying prisons are difficult to manage “under the best of circumstances.” Bryant spoke specifically about the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

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