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
Los Angeles County will retest about 4,000 DNA samples connected to criminal cases after discovering that it had been using potentially defective test kits to collect evidence for the past several months, Sheriff Robert Luna said in a statement this week. The kits were “prone to intermittently poor performance,” the sheriff said on Wednesday, and … Read more
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