Stories of Alleged Brutality by a Mississippi Sheriff's Department

BRANDON, Miss. — Last month, The New York Times and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today investigated a series of allegations that for nearly two decades, Rankin County sheriff’s deputies tortured people suspected of drug use to extract information and confessions. Reporters examined hundreds of pages of court records and sheriff’s office reports and interviewed more than 50 people who say they witnessed or experienced these events. What emerged was a pattern o

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