Quality of Mississippi prison water at center of dispute
“Southern Poverty Law Center and the Natural Resources Defense Council said state agencies must take swift action to correct the problems. But, the head of the state Department of Corrections said steps are already being taken to improve water and wastewater systems at Parchman.
Vidhi Bamzai, staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a news release that the Mississippi Department of Corrections and other agencies have known about problems for years, and inmates ‘are forced to use water that no state official would ever sip. The state must act now to remedy this.'”