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Federal Judge Places Consent Decree on Racist Mississippi County Sheriff’s Department

A federal judge has ordered a Mississippi county sheriff’s office to make sweeping changes after a civil rights lawsuit accused the county’s law enforcement agency of targeting black residents for years. On Thursday, a federal judge in the Southern District of Mississippi issued a landmark settlement in the case of Brown v. Madison County (pdf). The…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

October 4, 2019
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Family Accuses Mississippi Jailers of Torturing Man and Leaving Him to Die, Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit

A Mississippi man who was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge last May and died a day after being booked into the county jail was allegedly beat and tortured before being left to die in his cell, according to a lawsuit filed by the man’s family. The family of 36-year-old Harvey Hill filed a wrongful…

By

Monique Judge

Published

February 20, 2019