State fire marshal is investigating troubled Unit 29 at Parchman prison

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The state fire marshal is investigating a long-troubled unit at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, which could result in the unit’s closure if conditions don’t improve.Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney confirmed to Mississippi Today that deputies with the state fire marshal’s office, a division of his agency, were at Parchman’s Unit 2