A 71-year-old convicted murderer has escaped from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Nevin Whetstone escaped Tuesday, March 4, 2025, from the prison. It was not known how he escaped.

They entered a white only waiting room in Jackson and were arrested. They were sent to Mississippi’s notorious Parchman Prison and continued their protest from inside.

Seventy-one-year-old Nevin Whetstone is back in custody three days after he escaped the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. After a statewide search that prompted a lockdown for schools in ...

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One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.