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Mississippi State Penitentiary - Wikipedia 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
The Lasting Legacy of Parchman Farm, the Prison Modeled After . . . Months after its purchase, prisoners were taken to Parchman and ordered to prepare the land for farming In Worse Than Slavery, Oshinsky chronicles the history of Parchman Farm, which he describes as “the quintessential penal farm, the closest thing to slavery that survived the civil war ”
Surviving Parchman Farm: The Ordeal of 1965 - Crime Capsule Founded in 1905, built with convict labor, and operating as a working farm staffed by thousands of inmates, the longstanding suffering found at Parchman casts a long shadow over Mississippi’s efforts to break free of its Jim Crow past