Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Bye, Pelicia

The Mississippi Department of Corrections issued the following statement.


Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Pelicia E. Hall announced today that she has accepted a position in the private sector and will be leaving the agency in mid-January.

“I have had an amazing opportunity to serve my state and its residents for more than four years thanks to Gov. Phil Bryant,” Hall said. “I am truly excited about the new opportunity I now have because it will allow me to continue being an advocate for criminal justice reform and to support better wages and working conditions for the Department of Corrections employees, for whom I have been honored to serve.”

Hall initially served as acting commissioner for a month before Bryant appointed her in March 2017. Previously, she was the agency’s chief of staff, a position she had held since March 2015.

Hall, an attorney, has about 20 years of legal experience in the government and private sectors in a variety of disciplines. She said more will be revealed about her new role at a later date.

“Since early March 2015, I have been focused on progressively moving the Mississippi Department of Corrections forward,” Hall said. “While there have been many challenges, my administration has kept its focus on that goal.”




31 comments:

Anonymous said...

Don't let the door hit you in the booty on the way out.

Anonymous said...

So she'll try to tinker with the MDOC from the private sector...good plan!

Anonymous said...

Good.

Now, lets get a real leader and not from within MDOC.

Anonymous said...

Hit it sweetheart!! Fisher and yourself done enough. Made a damn mess of DOC. great day you both incompetent people are gone. Bye bye

Anonymous said...

Perhaps the inmates are upset that she is leaving and that's why they are stabbing each other.

Anonymous said...

Finally people can see what this Tyrant Fisher has done to public safety of this state. Lives are at stake

Anonymous said...

Pelicia you have to know you are terrible.

Shirley Haas said...

Breaking: Victor Mason seen meeting with Reeves' Transition Team.

Anonymous said...

Fire everyone in your path to hire a 22 yr old female so she could oversee 50 of the worse men in a pod. That’s how you roll. Now two dead in three days. I hope people can see

Anonymous said...

OK you arm chair quarterbacks, time to step up and volunteer to take a bite of the sh#t sandwich that is MDOC. It’s an impossible task....my hats off to anyone willing to try.

It smells like ass in here said...

Get used to saying this: Corrections Commissioner Victor Mason; yes, I'm serious and have it on good authority he's being considered

TheClintonscantsuicideusall said...

" Corrections Commissioner Victor Mason", He's lickin his chomps. Gonna be like hunting over a baited/caged field.

Anonymous said...

Word is Lee Shelborn

Anonymous said...

Please, someone tell me the last time we had a decent leader at MDOC -- neither Dem nor Rep governors have ever been able to find someone worth a shit. No reason to think that the Little Emperor will be any different.

Anonymous said...

#Parchman on Twitter is pretty alarming......... The last few days are on par with Jxn......

Anonymous said...

@ 8:58pm - So you’re saying they’re shooting kids at Parchman?

Anonymous said...

How do inmates kill and riot while on lockdown? Lockdown was imposed on all corrections since the first inmate death on Sunday in Greene Co. now this one in Parchman? Fake news? What they want the people to believe? It’s Marshal Fisher at his finest. Way to go Fisher. You big dummy. Pelicia bless your heart! You are a fake too. Had no business being in that position anyway. You were placed there by Fisher so he could still control it and you run cover! Right?! You two need to run into the sunset together. Two peas in a pod. Thick as thieves. The list goes on. Hail Tate!!!!

Anonymous said...

Both the MDOC and MDCPS are two of the lowest funded divisions in the executive branch of Mississippi. Therefore, staff retention is the most challenging issue. Until the Feds get involved and force Mississippi's hand on the matter, no one is going to make a difference in the "management" of those two systems. Personnel vacancies are rampant.....similar to the MS teacher shortage.....but in these agencies, lives are at stake...and when you're short-staffed, you cannot ensure safety. We can all sit back and just watch the clock tick down to when there will be repeated tragedies that trigger federal involvement, and that could have been avoided....but in Mississippi - they will blame "the system" and yawn.

Anonymous said...

Tater Tot is already starting to clean house of Bryant’s appointees. Three this week? Shame.

Anonymous said...

6:38, why is this a shame? The governor-elect wants to appoint people who will execute his vision of policy; that said Freeze's departure from Human Services is a loss - he was a great leader at the FBI and was making positive impact at Human Services.

Retention of agency heads solely for the sake of continuity and not performance is the sign of weak leadership and indecision. Now let's see who he appoints...

MDOT?
DoR?
Gaming?

Anonymous said...

Y'all want Tate to do what Phil-billy did? Like when Phil-Billy kept Epps?

Anonymous said...

Chris just got caught....he’s no different than most anybody in state government. He fell for the dollar, some fall for the flesh and some or just snorting the cocaine that is government power. You see, down in Mississippi when you don’t have much anyways, power and control if people and organizations becomes just as toxic and addictive. Nothing new, just a bunch of people scrapping over some lousy state executive jobs.

Anonymous said...

Sheldon for Corrections?........ Or public safety?

Anonymous said...

Governor Elect: Many of us support you and hope you will make a wise decision for Corrections. Barbour promised a clean sweep at MDOC but was charmed by Epos. It was after Epps subsequent appointment that he was so open with his corruption. Fisher was worthless. And Hall worth little more than Fisher. Get someone from out if state who can bring top people with him to cull the corrections culture. There are many good people working in Community Corrections but their deputy commissioner is a dumba## wanna be social worker who needs to go away.

Anonymous said...

Here's something you didn't know. These people are not in individual cells today. They're in open quarters like a barracks or a boy scout arena. Lockdown doesn't mean securing people within the confines of their individual cells. Just means they don't go to the lounge, the laundry, the exercise field or the library. And no visitors. Nothing is accomplished by a lockdown.

Anonymous said...

Boy scout arena?

Anonymous said...

Fired all the men CO to hire young women. No order behind the wire. I’ve been there I know. Did QB then Greene Co. DOC is a joke. Pelicia tried to compromise with us. We laugh at them all. They made it a joke

Anonymous said...

4 deaths 4 days.

Anonymous said...

8:28 - Boy Scout Arena. You know, like when a bunch of scouts go to camp for a week or to some remote retreat to earn badges in canoe and fire-prevention...and sleep in open quarters on flats or bunks. Used to be Camp Tallaha. Not sure what it is now. Point being, these convicts are not two to a cell.

Anonymous said...

2:40 - aha...back in the day we used to just call it scout camp, the best two weeks of the year for a kid who enjoyed the outdoors.

Anonymous said...

Now can the public see! Pelicia Hall is about a director to DOC as a fish out of water. Now you know good ole boy politics worked in her favor. Now a damn mess. We have said it for years now. One of these days. This would happen. Fire your men hire the little girls. So they won’t buck the system.


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