Six former law enforcement officers in Mississippi — five of whom were in the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office’s self-titled “Goon Squad” — got sentences ranging from 15-45 years Wednesday for their ...

On the eve of the final two federal sentencing hearings last month in the case of a pair of Black men tortured by six White law enforcement officers, a cousin of Emmett Till’s mother thought of her ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney Todd Gee held a listening session Tuesday for people to bring forward their stories that could potentially be criminal cases involving civil rights ...

JACKSON, Miss. — Sentencing hearings this week for six law enforcement officers, some of whom were members of the Goon Squad, revealed a disturbing portrait of a Mississippi sheriff's department that ...

Five former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies and one Richland police officer connected to the "Goon Squad" received state sentences Wednesday for their involvement in abusing and torturing two Black ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers were sentenced to decades in prison during hearings in federal court in Jackson this week for their roles in the torture of two Black ...

Beyond the courthouse, the “Goon Squad” sentencings also set the stage for people across majority-Black greater Jackson to confront the case’s excruciating truths: from vestiges of slavery to the ...