Mississippi Sheriff to be Investigated by State Auditor

March 29, 2025 by Author

The Mississippi State Auditor’s office on Friday said it had launched an investigation into allegations that Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey had staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with jail inmates who were in his custody. The investigation follows an article published Thursday by Mississippi Today and The New York Times in which former inmates … Read more

Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm

March 27, 2025 by Author

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. They said inmates … Read more