Their loved one died far from home in a private Delta prison. Who’s accountable?

Michelle Hodges-Feek hasn’t opened the box in her living room that arrived weeks ago from Mississippi.

She can’t bring herself to because inside are the cremated remains of her 40-year-old son, Daniel Hollan, who died Sept. 10 at a privately-run prison in the Mississippi Delta, hundreds of miles away.

She didn’t get an opportunity to say goodbye. Months later, she has an official cause of death and a certificate, but she’s still left with questions: What happened? How or why did this happen? Who is responsible?

“Nobody cares that my son died except me, and all I got is a big box that I don’t have the guts to open yet,” Hodges-Feek, who lives outside of Kansas City, Kansas, said as she began to cry.

One day she hopes to take a trip to Colorado, where their family previously lived, to ha