FREEDOM RIDER RETURNS TO PARCHMAN AFTER 62 YEARS UNVEILS MARKER Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, MS (Jan 25) – For the first time in 62 years, Hezekiah Watkins visited the cellblock where he was unjustly imprisoned at Parchman Prison in 1961… as a 13-year-old teenager. [NAT SOT, Watkins walking in Unit 17 at MSP] Teenager Watkins only wanted to see the Freedom Riders that hot Sunday in July 1961, as they marched on the Greyhound bus terminal in downtown Jackson. But as a joke, his frien