In 1940, a blues musician named Bukka White recorded "Parchman Farm Blues" about the infamous prison labor farm in the Mississippi Delta. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "PARCHMAN FARM BLUES") WHITE: (Singing) ...

Mississippi's Parchman Farm was once one of the country's most notorious prisons. The University of Mississippi has introduced college-level... The blues returns to Mississippi's Parchman Prison Farm ...

A&E is premiering a new documentary looking to shine a light on human rights violations at the Mississippi State Penitentiary known as Parchman Farm. “Exposing Parchman” will premiere Saturday, June ...

An effort By Sen. Juan Barnett, D-Heidelberg, to phase out Mississippi's 124-year-old Parchman prison was again killed this year before it could be debated on the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Barnett ...

Inmate/students practice blues harmonica during a classroom session of the Blues Tradition in American Literature course inside Parchman Prison in Mississippi. (John Burnett) Their crimes range from ...

Their crimes range from drug possession to armed robbery to homicide. But inside this austere classroom, they're all college students. The course is The Blues Tradition in American Literature. They're ...

Their crimes range from drug possession to armed robbery to homicide. But inside this austere classroom, they're all college students. They're exploring how the themes of blues lyrics—bad luck and ...