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Last month, The New York Times and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today investigated a series of allegations<\/a> that, for nearly two decades, Rankin County sheriff\u2019s deputies tortured people suspected of drug use to extract information and confessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporters examined hundreds of pages of court records and sheriff\u2019s office reports and interviewed more than 50 people who say they witnessed or experienced these events. What emerged was a pattern of violence that was neither confined to a small group of deputies nor hidden from department leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey declined to comment on specific allegations against his deputies, but in a brief phone interview in November, he told reporters \u201cI have 240 employees, there\u2019s no way I can be with them each and every day.\u201d The department also announced that it had updated its internal policies and that deputies would receive training on federal civil rights laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are portraits of some of the cases the investigation uncovered…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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