MDOC opens new investigations into dozens of recent prison deaths

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The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review unprosecuted homicides and undetermined deaths in its prisons since 2015.

A collaborative news investigation found at least 43 homicides in state prisons since 2015, but only eight resulted in murder convictions.

Advocates argue that chronic understaffing of security officers is a primary cause of the violence and deaths.

Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain stated the agency's rebuilt criminal investigations unit will handle the review of these past cases.

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons .

The Mississippi Department of Corrections will review more than two dozen unprosecuted homicides inside its prisons, as well as deaths where causes were ruled as “u