Mississippi State Penitentiary
Mississippi State Penitentiary, also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: state prison in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Carcel de Parchman”, “Cárcel de Parchman”, “Carcel de Parchman Farm”, “Cárcel de Parchman Farm”, “Carcel Parchman”, “Cárcel Parchman”, “Granja Parchman”, “Mississippi State Prison”, “Ms. State Penitentiary”, “Parchman Farm”, “Parchman Penitentiary”, “Parchman prison farm”, “Parchman State Penal Farm”, “Parchman, Mississippi”, “Penitenciaria Estatal de Misisipi”, “Penitenciaria Estatal de Mississippi”, “Penitenciaría Estatal de Mississippi”, “Penitenciaria estatal de Parchman”, “Penitenciaría estatal de Parchman”, “Pénitencier d’État du Mississipi”, “Pénitencier de l’État du Mississippi”, “Pénitencier de Parchman”, “Prision estatal Parchman Farm”, “Prisión estatal Parchman Farm”, “Prison de Parchman”, “Prison de Parchman Farm”, “Prison Parchman”, “Staatsgefängnis Mississippi”, and “Staatsgefängnis von Mississippi”
- Postal code: 38738
Mississippi State Penitentiary
- Categories: prison and locality
- Location: Sunflower, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.91789° or 33° 55′ 4″ north
Longitude
-90.49648° or 90° 29′ 47″ west
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Open location code
865FWG93+5C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Volapük—“Mississippi State Penitentiary” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Penitenciari Estatal de Mississipí”
- Chinese: “密西西比州立监狱”
- Chinese: “密西西比州立監獄”
- Dutch: “Mississippi State Penitentiary”
- French: “Mississippi State Penitentiary”
- French: “Pénitencier d’État du Mississippi”
- German: “Mississippi State Penitentiary”
- Italian: “Mississippi State Penitentiary”
- Japanese: “ミシシッピ州立刑務所”
- Spanish: “Mississippi State Penitentiary”
- Spanish: “Penitenciaría Estatal de Misisipi”
- Urdu: “مسیسپی اسٹیٹ پینٹینشری”
- Volapük: “Parchman”
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Places to explore: Minot and Fitzhugh.
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Highlights: Parchman Farms Cemetery and Pleasant Green Cemetery.
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