Central Mississippi Correctional Facility

The Central Mississippi Correctional Facility for Women (CMCF) is a Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) prison for men and women located in an unincorporated area in Rankin County, Mississippi, near the city of Pearl.[1][2] The 171-acre (69 ha) prison is the only state prison to hold female prisoners in Mississippi, in addition to minimum and medium security male offenders. As such, it operates as the female death row of the state.[1]

Central Mississippi Correctional Facility
Location3794 MS-468
Pearl, Mississippi
Statusopen
Security classmixed
Capacity3557
Opened1986
Managed byMississippi Department of Corrections

The prison is in proximity to the cities of Brandon and Jackson.[3]

The prison houses the Receiving and Classification Unit (R&C), where most prisoners entering the MDOC system are held before going to their permanent unit assignments.[1] Most male inmates who are sentenced to MDOC by the courts or who are returned to MDOC as parole violators, probation violators, intensive supervision program (ISP) violators, earned release supervision (ERS) violators, and suspension violators are placed at R&C. All women inmates who are sentenced to MDOC by the courts or who are returned to MDOC as parole violators, probation violators, ISP violators, ERS violators, and suspension violators are placed in 1A or 2B at CMCF.[4] Male death row inmates do not go to CMCF; they are transferred from county jails and immediately go to the Mississippi State Penitentiary, the location of the male death row.[5]

MDOC states that CMCF was "designed to provide aesthetics along with security."[6]

History

CMCF opened in January 1986 with a capacity of 667 prisoners. CMCF was the first prison facility of the Mississippi Department of Corrections outside of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) in Sunflower County. Upon the opening of CMCF, female prisoners were transferred from MSP to CMCF;[7] previously women were held in MSP Camp 25.[8] CMCF was designed by Dale and Associates.[9] It was originally named the Rankin County Correctional Facility (RCCF).[10] Johnson & Johnson uses prison labor from this facility to operate a "clean room" for the cleaning and sterilizing of suture spools.[11]

Demographics

As of September 1, 2008, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, with a capacity of 3,665, had 3,610 prisoners, making up a total of 25.07% of people within the Mississippi Department of Corrections-operated prisons, county jails, and community work centers.[12] Of the male inmates at CMCF, 1,383 are Black, 738 are White, 16 are Hispanic, three are Native American, two are Asian, and one has no available data. Of the female prisoners, 781 are Black, 672 are White, 8 are Hispanic, 3 are Asian, 2 are Native American, and one has no available data.[13]

Notable inmates

Inmates incarcerated at CMCF:

Death Row
  • Lisa Jo Chamberlin - Chamberlin, along with Roger Lee Gillett, were convicted in the March 2004 deaths of Linda Heintzelman and Heintzelman's boyfriend, Vernon Hulett. Their bodies were found inside a freezer at an abandoned farm.
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See also

References
  1. "State Prisons Archived 2002-12-06 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections; retrieved May 21, 2010. "3794 Hwy 468 Pearl, MS 39208"
  2. "MDOC QUICK REFERENCE." Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on May 21, 2010. "3794 Hwy 468 - Pearl, MS 39208"
  3. "GARRISON COULD BE BACK IN JAIL SOON." Biloxi Sun-Herald. February 15, 1995. C2 Coast and State. Retrieved on September 24, 2011. "[...]days for her return to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Brandon." and "[...]County jail to the central Mississippi prison near Jackson in mid- 1994."
  4. "Chapter I." Inmate Handbook. Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.
  5. "Where do new inmates go when first moved from the local county jail to MDOC custody?" Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on May 21, 2010.
  6. "011.jpg." Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on September 18, 2010.
  7. "A Brief History of the Mississippi Department of Corrections Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.
  8. Freedman, Diane P., Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Duke University Press, 1993. 72. Retrieved from Google Books on September 3, 2010. ISBN 0-8223-1292-1, ISBN 978-0-8223-1292-5.
  9. "Correctional Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine." Dale And Associates. Retrieved on August 16, 2010.
  10. "July 1, 1989 - June 30, 1990 Annual Report Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections. 5/83. Retrieved on September 1, 2010.
  11. "Mississippi Prison Industries loses $3.2M, fires CEO". March 24, 2018. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  12. "Fact Sheet Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections. 1/3. Updated on September 1, 2008. Retrieved on July 24, 2010.
  13. "Fact Sheet Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Department of Corrections. 2/3. Updated on September 1, 2008. Retrieved on July 24, 2010.
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20120323022521/http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/InmateDetails.asp?PassedId=153003. Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2011-08-17. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  15. https://www.mdoc.ms.gov/Pages/default.aspx

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