The DOJ launches a probe of the troubled Mississippi prisons after a string of inmate deaths, riots and escapes.
, including the penitentiary in Parchman, the state's oldest and most notorious lockup.
Employees leave the front gate of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., July 21, 2010.The federal investigation will be conducted under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Acts, which gives the DOJ authority to investigate violations of prisoners' constitutional rights that result from a"pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of such rights," the DOJ's statement reads.
The investigation will focus on whether the Mississippi Department of Corrections adequately protects prisoners from physical harm at the hands of other prisoners at the four prisons Dozens have died and hundreds of others live in squalid conditions withstanding sewage in freezing temperatures as a result of Mississippi's neglect
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