Feds will seek to determine if the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a pattern of violence, illegal searches and ...

U.S. Department of Justice launches civil rights investigation into Rankin County, Mississippi, and the Rankin County Sheriff ...

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

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

The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

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

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

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the former officers’ actions “egregious and despicable” and imposed sentences near the top ...

This investigation is separate and independent from the federal criminal civil rights prosecutions of Rankin County deputies ...