Detention facilities throughout Mississippi are on lockdown until further notice, officials said Saturday, as a result of violence that has shaken several prisons and resulted in five inmate deaths.
At the same time, the hunt was on for two inmates believed to be on the loose. Gov. Phil Bryant on Saturday said via Twitter that he has directed "the use of all necessary assets and personnel" to find the two inmates who escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.
The department said via Twitter Saturday afternoon that there were no major disturbances occurring at Parchman. Mississippi's outgoing prisons chief said Friday that four of the five killings of inmates since Sunday stem from gang violence, as guards struggle to maintain control of restive inmates. The five inmates have been identified as Denorris Howell, 36, and Terrandance Dobbins, 40, who died Sunday at the South Mississippi Correctional Institute in Leakesville. On Tuesday, Walter Gates, 25, was stabbed and several other inmates were injured at Parchman during a fight that spread to multiple units of the sprawling prison. Then on Thursday, Gregory Emary, 26, was killed at the Chickasaw County Regional Correctional Facility, a county-run jail that holds state inmates.
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