MS- 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up

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‘You’re His Property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say - Mississippi Today

Rankin County's sheriff staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates and allegedly used taxpayer-purchased equipment.

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The reporting revealed that for most of his 13 years in office, Sheriff Bailey used his position as the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his suburban county in ways that financially benefited himself and his family.
‘You’re His Property’: Embattled Mississippi sheriff used inmates and county resources for personal gain, former inmates and deputy say - Mississippi Today

Welp, the statements of the sheriff contained in this post back when this case first broke certainly haven't aged well in light of these allegations against him.
MS- 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up

ETA he was just miffed because his crew of abusers went and messed up the slave labor he used on the county's dime.