Besides Howell, Terrandance Dobbins, 40, was killed Sunday at South Mississippi. Candice Dobbins said she first learned of her brother's death after a stranger who has a relative in a Mississippi prison phoned her. Dobbins said she had been trying to get her brother transferred, saying he felt unsafe at South Mississippi. Some prisons, including South Mississippi, have areas where many prisoners are housed in bunks in one large room, instead of individual cells. South Mississippi, in Greene County, was locked down for almost all of 2019, in part because of guard shortages.

Source: ABC News January 03, 2020 14:54 UTC