All Mississippi Prisons Locked Down; Security Cited

Clarion Ledger, The Clarion-Ledger
Fri, 04/20/2018 - 4:47pm

All of Mississippi's prisons have been locked down, and corrections officials aren't giving details because of "security reasons."

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