The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin ... is the 12th pattern or practice probe of law enforcement misconduct ...

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi after several of its former officers known as the “Goon Squad ...

The final chapter of the so-called “Goon Squad”—six rogue police officers who terrorized central Mississippi—closed last week ...

Neshoba County sheriff’s deputy ... by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and sealed until Bowers’ death. Mitchell, whose work on unsolved cases of the Civil Rights era earned ...