Died in prison
Name not reported
A person held at Parchman, the Mississippi state penitentiary, was killed in early January 2020 during a week of gang violence and riots across the state's prisons. Reports say three people held at Parchman were slain in that violence. Five people died across the wider wave of unrest in the state's prisons. The state responded by locking down its roughly 19,000 people in custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The article reports that three people held at Parchman were slain during a week of gang violence and riots across Mississippi's state prisons, without naming them or describing how each was killed.
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