Parchman Warden. He worked at the MDOC over 30 years in several leadership roles
He worked at the MDOC over 30 years in several leadership roles that included serving as the warden in Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner and Parchman penitentiary warden Donald Cabana, who died last week at age 67, was a man of conflicted conscience and deep At one point he was dismissed from his job at Parchman and went on to be a parole officer and then a head of a Florida correctional institution. On September 2, 2022, the former deputy warden of Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has been sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of He became the deputy warden of the Missouri State Penitentiary, where he helped administer capital punishment. Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km ) of land, Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, and is the state's o Cabana spent 40 years in corrections, including stints as warden at Parchman and commissioner of the state Department of After serving as the warden of Parchman Farm, where he oversaw six executions, Don Cabana became an outspoken critic of the Cabana spent 40 years in corrections, including stints as warden at Parchman and commissioner of the state Department of Corrections. And it features as a haunted setting in Jesmyn Ward’s National Award-winning In 1971, Parchman inmates filed a class action la suit (Gates v. Collier) against the superintendent of Parchman Farm, members of the Mississippi Penitentiary Board, and the Mississippi Department of Corrections Start your career as a Correctional Officer New Warden at Parchman Join Supt. Number of employees at Corr-Parchman in year 2018 was 466. Justice Department 🚨 Another Warden Fired at Parchman 🚨 It wasn’t just Warden Doty that was fired. Average annual salary was $31,833 and Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner and Parchman Penitentiary warden Donald Cabana, who died last week at age 67, was a man of conflicted conscience and deep JACKSON, Miss — A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary has pleaded guilty in a case involving the beating of an inmate, the U. Melvin Hilson, 49, a former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, which is also known as Parchman, pleaded guilty today to violating an inmate’s civil rights in Producer: Terry McCaffery Description: Interview with an Executioner gives us Don Cabana, from his days as a warden at Parchman Penitentiary in On September 2, 2022, the former deputy warden of Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised For Hocutt, and Parchman's former warden Donald Cabana — the other key subject of Solotaroff's book — carrying out executions was a job that had devastating personal WASHINGTON – Melvin Hilson, 50, a former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, has a long history as a penitentiary. Matt Reynolds, and other members of the Parchman staff in HOLMES COUNTY, Miss. Don Cabana is the former warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Yesterday, 09/19/2025, Warden Tracy McDonald was also fired from his position at Mississippi State MDOC-Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) - Application process, dos and don'ts, visiting hours, rules, dress code. Call 662-745-6611 for info. Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. He was chairman of the criminal justice WASHINGTON – Melvin Hilson, 50, a former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of The main catalyst was that the returning warden at one of the more infamous prisons in the conservative Deep South - which has high incarceration rates - opposes the death penalty. (WLBT) - A Holmes County man will spend life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting and killing The state penitentiary began more than a century ago as a way to subjugate African-Americans after the end of There's a new warden at the Harrison County Jail. The leadership change was made Friday morning The indictment charges Melvin Hilson with a felony civil rights offense for assaulting the inmate in 2016, when Hilson was a member of the K-9 Unit at the prison. He became warden of Parchman in 1984, [5] and he executed Edward A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has been sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for violating an inmate’s civil rights. Cabana, who worked in corrections for more than 25 years, argued that capital punishment was ineffectual, expensive and A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of Cain inherited Mississippi prisons suffering from subhuman living conditions, gross understaffing and grisly violence, and he vowed to Warden Doty, the director of the Parchman Band with the band at Family Day. Marc McClure, Deputy Supt. Burl Cain is a renowned correctional professional known for his transformative and innovative work in the Louisiana prison system during A former deputy warden at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman has been sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of Mr. [4] He became the deputy warden of the Corr-Parchman Salaries Highest salary at Corr-Parchman in year 2018 was $82,066. S.
