Parchman

This only made SNCC increase its riders, many of whom ended up spending forty-nine days in an antiquated dungeon fortress in Mississippi called Parchman Penitentiary.

1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

Thirty-six miles from the Snowden Jones apartments, the place Melvin Smith had called Parchman without a fence.

Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002

Thirty-six miles from the Snowden Jones apartments, the place Melvin Smith had called Parchman without a fence.

Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002

Thirty-six miles from the Snowden Jones apartments, the place Melvin Smith had called Parchman without a fence.

Confederacy of Silence Richard Rubin 2002

Corrections and law enforcement officials from the federal government and numerous states were on hand Wednesday to experience the new technology at Parchman, which is the first commercial deployment of its type in the United States.

StreetInsider.com News Articles 2010

In the South there was a sky high conviction rate for the express purpose of supplying: free labor to profit-making prisons (such as Parchman and Angola), to deprive people of the franchise, and to keep the population in a state of terror.

Matthew Yglesias » George Will’s Odd Aversion to Democracy 2009

Maye was to be taken off Parchman Penitentiary's Death Row.

Cory Maye To Be Released From Prison 2011

Maye was to be taken off Parchman Penitentiary's Death Row.

Cory Maye To Be Released From Prison 2011

"Local Color," Mr. Allison's follow-up album that same year, included the blues "Parchman Farm" named for the penitentiary near his childhood home.

A Delta Drifter Keeps His Southern Accent 2010

After her arrest on June 7, 1961, she spent forty days in jail in Mississippi, first in the Hinds County Jail and then in Parchman Prison.

Jewish Women in Civil Rights - Carol Ruth Silver - Biography 2010