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The Mississippi Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations for the State Department of Corrections – the state’s prison system – included $424.3 million from the General Fund, State Support Special Funds of $7.5 million, $19.
5 million in federal funds, and other special funds of $27.07 million for a total of $458.9 million.
Those funds support the incarceration of 19,242 inmates as of Aug. 23. That comes out to be just under $23,849 annually per inmate.
10,672 of those inmates are housed in the big three state prisons at Parchman, Central Miss. Correctional in Rankin County, South Miss. Correctional in Leakesville and several smaller, more specialized state facilities.
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