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Delta Correctional Facility was a Mississippi Department of Corrections state prison for men operated by Corrections Corporation of America and located in Greenwood Leflore County Mississippi. The facility originally opened in 1996 was closed by the state in 2002 then re-opened then closed once more on January 15 2012.On June 25 2009 inmate Joseph Jackson serving a life sentence at Delta organized an armed escape during a visit to a local commercial optometrist’s office in Greenwood.