For the second time in a week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a Mississippi law enforcement agency was found to violate the civil rights of its residents following an investigation that ...

LEXINGTON, Miss. — A winter sun is setting over the brown, patchy field where Ronald Redmond’s kids have been playing football since they were 5. The goalposts are rusting and the fence is ripped. But ...

The suit contends Lexington, Mississippi officers harassed Black residents. A month after the police chief of a Mississippi town was fired following leaked audio allegedly of him using racial slurs, a ...

A Mississippi city under scrutiny for allegations of racism and retaliation from police is now at the center of a federal Department of Justice investigation. “Today the Justice Department is ...

The investigation is just the latest in a series of similar probes nationwide. The Justice Department announced Wednesday it has opened a civil investigation into the City of Lexington, Mississippi, ...

Francine Jefferson (left) and Cardell Wright (right) sit in the Lexington Public Library on Dec. 8, 2023. The two organizers and Holmes County residents are working to raise awareness around policing ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights probe into the practices of the city of Lexington, Mississippi, and its police force over concerns of potential breaches in constitutional ...

A Justice Department investigation concluded that a small Mississippi town piled more than $1.7 million in fines on its residents and then jailed them in an unconstitutional debtor's prison when they ...

A Mississippi police department violated the Constitution by jailing people for unpaid fines without first assessing whether they can afford to pay them, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

A small Mississippi city and its police department are being sued weeks after the police chief was fired after bragging about shooting and killing people in a racist and homophobic rant. Five Black ...