It states, “This is a first, critical step in cleaning up the Sheriff’s Department and holding Rankin County legally accountable for the years of constitutional violations against its citizenry.

The FBI and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the ...

All six pleaded guilty to 16 felony charges related to the racially motivated torture and sexual assault of Jenkins and Parker, along with a third Rankin County man, in two unrelated incidents ...

DOJ launches civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, sheriff's department over excessive force, unlawful stops, and racial discrimination.

With a population of approximately 157,000 of which more than 71% are white, Rankin County has the smallest Black population (about 21%) of any county in the Jackson Metropolitan Area.

FILE - Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division at a news conference, Nov. 8, 2023, in Jackson, Miss.

Called by the Rankin County branch of the NAACP, the meeting featured remarks by Trent Walker, an attorney representing several families in an announced their intent to file a $400 million federal ...

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it had expanded its investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department where a self-described “Goon Squad” of deputies has been accused of ...

Attorneys Malik Shabazz and Trent Walker sued the Rankin County Sheriff's Department last year on behalf of the two victims, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. The suit is still ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a massive federal investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department.“To determine if they engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the ...

An investigation into the January torture and abuse of two Black men at a home in Braxton ended with guilty pleas from six now-former Rankin County deputies and an ex-officer with the Richland Police ...