‘You’re His Property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say
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Bryan Bailey, the Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the county jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve the grounds, according to four former inmates and a former deputy who said they had worked on the farm.
  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    This isn’t even the worst thing to come out of Rankin County in the past few years, they’re home of the police department that the media dubbed the goon* squad for their habit of just straight up kidnapping and torturing people. Like, they only got caught because a dumb bastard forgot to unload his gun before doing a mock execution and accidentally shot the tongue off of someone and they couldn’t come up with anyway to make the forensics on that look like anything other than what it was (they did try to argue they were somehow defending themselves for a few days).

    *Slang changes fast, okay?

    • entwine413@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 days ago

      Why put in the effort to hide it? It’s not like anything is going to happen to them.