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| Cabana's legacy was bringing humanity to state's prison system |
| By hattiesburgamerican.com - Sid Salter |
| Published: 10/23/2013 |
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Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner and Parchman penitentiary warden Donald Cabana, who died recently at age 67, was a man of conflicted conscience and deep integrity. His legacy should be that of a man who brought decency, humanity and progressive thinking to the operation of Mississippi’s historically notorious Delta prison and whose personal conflicts over the death penalty forced others to reflect honestly about their own opinions. As a journalist, I covered four executions at Parchman and from a broader sense wrote about issues of crime and punishment in Mississippi ranging from the late former U.S. District Judge William Keady’s decades-long crusade to reform Mississippi’s prison system that began with his 1972 ruling in the case of Gates v. Collier. Read More. |
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