Notable Inmates
Death row:
- Cory Maye (Unit 32) Released in 2011.
Non-death row:
- Samuel H. Bowers (Died in the hospital unit)
- Stokely Carmichael
- James Farmer
- Eddie James House (Son House)
- Edgar Ray Killen (Unit 31)
- John Lewis
- Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley
- Booker T. Washington White (Bukka White)
- Luke Woodham, perpetrator of the Pearl High School shooting (Unit 29)
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