Bryan Bailey, the Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the county jail ...

A man who went missing in the Mississippi River near Lake City was found dead Sunday afternoon. The 56-year-old man went ...

The F.B.I. and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the force and never faced charges.

As Marquise Tillman led deputies on a high-speed chase through rural Mississippi in March 2019, Sheriff Todd Kemp issued a blunt order over the radio: “Shut him down and beat his ass.” When ...

Mississippi sheriff changes policies after violent abuse. Victims say it’s to escape accountability. Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, two Black men, were victims of what the ...

TERRY, Miss. — A Mississippi sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while responding to a call outside the state's capital city of Jackson, authorities said. Deputy Martin Shields Jr., 37, of the ...

Former Sheriff Terry Grassaree of Noxubee County, Mississippi, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI as they probed claims he solicited nude photos from a female inmate.

The Mississippi sheriff has overseen a department in which five deputies were convicted of torturing Black men. They called themselves the "Goon Squad" for their willingness to secretly use ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys for the victims of a racist episode of police torture say new policies unveiled by a Mississippi sheriff’s department this week were introduced so the sheriff ...