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Mississippi State Penitentiary is in an unincorporated area in Sunflower County, Mississippi. 50. The prison which occupies 18,000 acres (7,300 ha) of land, has 53 buildings with a total of 922,966 square feet (85,746.3 m 2) of space. As of 2010 the institution can house 4,536 inmates. 1,109 people, as of 2010, work at MSP.
— Fannie Lou Hamer Hamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Forced sterilization was a common method of population control in Mississippi that targeted poor, African-American women. Members of the Black community called the procedure a ...
September 1, 2024 at 6:58 PM. BOVINA, Miss. (AP) — Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were collecting evidence Sunday at the scene of a commercial bus crash in ...
September 2, 2024 at 10:01 AM. Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press who for nearly 50 years wrote glittering first drafts of history from many of the nation’s most ...
The entire length of I-94 is listed on the National Highway System, [3] a network of roadways important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility. [4] The freeway carried 168,200 vehicles on average between I-75 and Chene Street in Detroit, which is the peak traffic count in 2015, and it carried 12,554 vehicles immediately west of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, the lowest traffic ...
Jeff Bridges is famously the Dude, but today, so is Drew Barrymore.. The actress, 49, dressed up like Bridges' iconic character from the 1998 movie The Big Lebowskito welcome The Old Man star, 74 ...
Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River, or its historical course. [7] Mississippi is the 32nd largest by area and 35th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states and has the lowest per-capita income. Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city.
September 12, 2024 at 4:12 PM. New York Police Department Commissioner Edward Caban has resigned, he said Thursday in a statement, marking the first high-profile departure from Mayor Eric Adams ...