Stubborn and willing to take up violence as a Ku Klux Klan kleagle in rural Mississippi, prison did nothing to mellow Edgar Ray Killen.
Killen received 17 disciplinary write-ups from the time he entered state prison in Mississippi in 2009 until his death in January at the age of 92.
His prison record, obtained from the Mississippi Department of Corrections via a public records request by the Southern Poverty Law Center, depicts an aging man who remained defiant and racist until his final days at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.
The offenses ranged from hiding tobacco in the cushion of his wheelchair to calling a staff member a “black bitch.”
