Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

Nearly two years after Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker survived hours of a sadistic torture plot conjured up ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.

The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...

The Mississippi sheriff has overseen a department in which five deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. They called themselves the "Goon Squad" for ... to resign or be arrested for filling ...

One of the Mississippi “Goon Squad” officers who are responsible for the racist attack and torture of two Black men is attempting to have his sentence reduced. In April 2024, former ...

For these reasons, I was sadly unsurprised by the violent actions of a group of White male deputies in Rankin County, ...

The Justice Department will seek to determine if the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern of violence, ...

The torture of two Black men by white Rankin County, Mississippi, sheriff's deputies in the self-named "Goon Squad" was "horrific," says Grace Elizabeth Hale. But abuse under all-powerful ...

is the largest county in Mississippi, with a population of almost 160,000, according to the US Census. Six officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" pleaded guilty on August 3 to federal ...

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