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 ...

A Mississippi civil rights attorney alleges she was wrongfully arrested over the weekend and believes it may have been in retaliation for her advocacy work in the city of Lexington highlighting claims ...

The Lexington Police Department in Mississippi was the subject of a recent federal probe that found that officers frequently violated citizens’ constitutional rights with illegal fines, arrests, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXPLAINS WHAT LED THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION, AND WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR. MEGAN, TROY THIS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION. THE DOJ IS LOOKING INTO WHETER PEOPLE'S RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED IN ...

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 ...

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 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.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has opened a civil rights investigation into the city of Lexington and the Lexington Police Department. According to officials, the ...