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Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain, photographed in September 2023, told Mississippi Today in September 2020 that the department will re-investigate dozens of prison deaths from 2015 onward. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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Mississippi prison chief reopens homicide cases following news investigation
By JERRY MITCHELL, DAJA E. HENRY, THE MARSHALL PROJECT AND MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,10/17/25-4:28PM , 202 Reads 6,067 Statewide
Nearly 50 prison deaths will be examined, following a joint investigation by multiple Mississippi newsrooms.
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