Status closed | Capacity 1,172 | |
Location 3800 County Road 540
Greenwood, Mississippi Managed by Mississippi Department of Corrections | ||
Delta Correctional Facility was a Mississippi Department of Corrections state prison for men, operated by Corrections Corporation of America and located in Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi. The facility originally opened in 1996, with a capacity of 1172. It was closed by the state in 2002, then re-opened. It was closed on January 15, 2012.
Prior to closing, the facility also housed about 125 county prisoners from Leflore County, Mississippi. As a result of the closing, the Mississippi DOC claimed $118 million in cost savings and cost avoidance.
Incidents
In 2009, Joseph Jackson, serving a life sentence at Delta Correctional Facility, escaped custody while on a supervised visit to an eye doctor. Jackson's cousin, Cortney Logan of Louisville, Kentucky, used a firearm to free Jackson, and the pair fled in a rental car. When stopped approximately 300 mi (480 km) northeast in Nashville, Tennessee by police Sergeant Mark Chesnut, Jackson shot the officer. Chestnut survived and later sued Corrections Corporation of America.
A convicted felon named Cedric Gordon was mistakenly released from Delta in mid-August 2009, and returned to prison by his mother. A gang fight among inmates on July 7, 2011 left six inmates injured and 26-year-old inmate Derek Criddle fatally stabbed.