The Mississippi Department of Corrections announced on Friday that it would close the privately run Walnut Grove Correctional Facility in September and transfer its 900 inmates to state-run ...

Some of the most dangerous prisoners have been removed from the privately-run Walnut Grove Correctional Facility following a July 10 riot, as the Mississippi Department of Corrections faces ...

A privately operated Mississippi prison that a federal ... Conditions at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, were deemed so substandard by U.S. District Judge Judge Carlton Reeves that ...

None was as violent as the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility. The for-profit detention center, surrounded by razor wire and near the forests and farms of central Mississippi, had 27 ...