The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of ...

The Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the sheriff’s department in Mississippi’s Rankin County ...

Six former officers, who were members of a self-proclaimed "Goon Squad," were sentenced to decades in prison for torturing ...

Authorities said the civil rights probe would examine whether officers systemically targeted minorities with excessive force.

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

The U.S. Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department following ...

The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi is notorious for its "Goon Squad," which beat and tortured two men.

The investigation comes after Rankin County sheriff's deputies and a Richland police officer, called the "Goon Squad," were ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department ...

"We will continue this transparency and will fully cooperate with all aspects of this investigation," the sheriff's office ...

Some of the officers were part of a group so willing to use excessive force they called themselves the Goon Squad. All six ...