Delta Correctional Facility

Delta Correctional Facility
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Location3800 County Road 540
Greenwood, Mississippi
Statusopen
Capacity1,172
Opened1996
ClosedJanuary 15, 2012
Managed byMississippi Department of Corrections

Delta Correctional Facility is a Mississippi Department of Corrections state prison for women,[1] one of opened in the late 20th century and early 21st century in the state, and operated by for-profit corporations. Located in Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, in the largely rural Mississippi Delta region, it was initially operated by Corrections Corporation of America, which changed its name to CoreCivic in 2014.[2]

The facility opened in 1996, with a capacity of 1172.[3] This facility was closed by the state in 2002, then re-opened in 2004.[4]

The facility was closed on January 15, 2012, due to excess capacity in the state.[4] Prior to closing, the facility also housed about 125 county prisoners from Leflore County, Mississippi.[3] As a result of the closing, the Mississippi DOC claimed $118 million in cost savings and cost avoidance.[4]

The prison reopened after the state bought it out.[1]

Management incidents

In 2009, Joseph Jackson, serving a life sentence at Delta Correctional Facility, escaped custody while on a supervised visit to an eye doctor. Jackson's cousin, Cortney Logan of Louisville, Kentucky, used a firearm to free Jackson, and the pair fled in a rental car. When stopped approximately 300 mi (480 km) northeast in Nashville, Tennessee by police Sergeant Mark Chesnut, Jackson shot the officer in the abdomen, five times. Chestnut survived and later sued Corrections Corporation of America. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount.[5] Logan was later found guilty as an accomplice in the shooting of Chesnut.[6]

Convicted felon Cedric Gordon was mistakenly released from Delta in mid-August 2009; his mother returned him to prison. A gang fight among inmates on July 7, 2011 left six inmates injured and 26-year-old inmate Derek Criddle fatally stabbed.[7]

The warden at the time of closing was Raymond Byrd, who then became warden at Wilkinson County Correctional Center, also in Mississippi, until the contract was lost to Management and Training Corporation, in July 2013.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Delta Correctional Facility". Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  2. ^ Boucher, Dave (October 28, 2016). "CCA changes name to CoreCivic amid ongoing scrutiny". The Tennessean. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Corrections Corporation of America Announces Contract to Resume Management of the Delta Correctional Facility and Closure of T. Don Hutto Correctional Center", press release, 23 March 2004, CCA website, investor relations
  4. ^ a b c [1] Archive)]
  5. ^ "Former Nashville Officer Settles CCA Lawsuit". WBKO. September 14, 2011. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03.
  6. ^ Nix, James (September 22, 2010). "Jury Finds Accomplice Guilty in Shooting of Sgt. Chesnut". Nashville City Paper.
  7. ^ "Inmate Stabbed to Death during Gang Fight in Jail", The Mississippi Link, 12 July 2011
  8. ^ Raymond Byrd, Correctional News, March 13, 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2017.

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