Mississippi's Unit 32 - the Death House before the Death House

This is going to be a working post because I want to do more research into the history of Unit 32 at Parchman, Mississippi's version of a Super-Max prison, but I want to make sure and pass along the story that came out this week about Inmate Jessie Wilson stabbing death of death-row inmate Earnest Lee Hargon. The story that has been released is that Wilson escaped his cell in some manner and stabbed Hargon, who was cleaning a tier of cells, to death. For more on this story see articles from the Clarion-Ledger and WAPT.

This is the Jessie Wilson's MDOC profile.
Here is the official MDOC press release.

There are lots of different angles to look at this issue: was this a prison gang killing as some of the reporting has alluded to, should we even have Super-Max prisons, should death row inmates ever come in contact with not death row inmates, what to do with mentally ill prisoners, what are and are not acceptable conditions for prisoners, should the State of Mississippi get out of the prison business and farm out our prisoners to private companies, i.e. Hawaii, and how does a criminal in Super-Max get the utilities and escape from his cell to kill another inmate?

Quite honestly I am looking for a little feedback from the readers about what interest you and we will talk about it.