Adams County Correctional Center (ACCC) is a medium security prison for men located in

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Adams County, Mississippi Adams County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,538. The county seat is Natchez. The county is the first to have been organized in the former Mississippi Territory. It is nam ...

, near Natchez, It is owned and operated by

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under contract with the U.S.

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. After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 Hobo Fork Road Adams Correctional Center opened July 2009. The facility has a capacity of 2567 inmates. Most of its prisoners are illegal immigrants charged with re-entering the United States after a deportation. CoreCivic has owned the prison since 2007; the facility did not open until late in 2009. According to an FBI affidavit dated to 2012, the majority of those incarcerated were Mexican nationals. The largest group of prisoners were the Paisas.

History

In May 2012 a riot at the facility claimed the life of Corrections Officer Catlin Hugh Carithers and left sixteen other staff members and three prisoners injured. Twenty-five employees were held hostage during the disturbance, which was ultimately quelled by facility staff with assistance from the

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and the

. According to a company statement, the fatality was the second time an employee had "lost his life to inmate assault." A federal court affidavit filed by the FBI claims the riots were triggered by protests against the abysmal food and medical care provided at the facility. In January 2017, the last of 23 prisoners who were tried for organizing the May 2010 riot was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison. In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that

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provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.

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