A search is underway for two violent inmates missing from a Mississippi state penitentiary, corrections officials said.
Inmates David May, 42, and Dillion Williams, 27, were discovered missing from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman during a 1:45 a.m. emergency count, officials said in a Facebook post.May is serving a life term for two aggravated assault convictions, and Williams is serving 40 years for residential burglary and aggravated assault, officials said.
Read MoreDisturbances, some of them gang related, were also reported at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville, where one inmate died, and the Chickasaw County Regional Correctional Facility in Houston, Mississippi, where another inmate died, said Commissioner Pelicia Hall.Several inmates were injured in the violence. A fifth death and a minor fire at the Parchman prison were unrelated to the disturbances, officials said.
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