Mississippi Today’s “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” investigation has been named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.
The 2023 investigation from the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today and The New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship revealed how Mississippi sheriffs rule like kings, wielding vast power, exploiting and abusing the very people they are called to protect with no one stopping them.
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The seven-part 2023 series, which has continued into 2024, included new details about the Rankin County “Goon Squad.”
Click the links below to read the Pulitzer Prize-recognized series.
Sex Abuse, Beatings and an Untouchable Mississippi Sheriff
Where the Sheriff is King, These Women Say He Coerced Them Into Sex
New Evidence Raises Questions in Controversial Mississippi Law Enforcement Killing
The Sheriff, His Girlfriend and His Illegal Subpoenas
How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality
Days After Rankin’s ‘Goon Squad’ Tortured Two Men, Supervisors Gave the Sheriff a Pay Boost
Who Investigates the Sheriff? In Mississippi, Often No One.
READ MORE: The complete “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” series
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