Mass Grave Behind Jackson, Mississippi Jail Raises More Questions Than it Answers

A “Pauper’s Cemetery” Behind Hinds County Jail Holds 215 Unclaimed, Unidentified Bodies

Some bizarre and shocking news out of Jackson, Mississippi recently: behind the Hinds County Penal Farm, in what’s been described as a “pauper’s cemetery” 672 bodies lie in shallow, unmarked graves, and around 215 of them are unclaimed, and unidentified bodies that have been buried there just in the last eight years.

But it gets stranger, some of these b…