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Prison gangs roam with homemade swords
By clarionledger.com - Jerry Mitchell
Published: 10/13/2014

The Wilkinson County Correctional Facility has been more violent than any state prison in Mississippi — and twice as deadly as the streets of Detroit.

Over the past two years, the prison has been averaging a killing each year. If Wilkinson were a city of 100,000, it would average more than 111 slayings a year. In the most recent figures available, Detroit had 54.6 killings per 100,000.

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