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 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 ...

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 50-page report revealed the Lexington Police Department arrested nearly one fourth of its city’s entire population in the past two years. The city of Lexington, Miss. only holds about 1400 people, ...

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 in one of the nation's poorest counties unconstitutionally jailed people for unpaid fines without first assessing whether they could afford to pay them, the U.S.

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 ...

A small Mississippi city and its police department are being sued weeks after the police chief was fired after bragging about shooting and killing people in a racist and homophobic rant. Five Black ...

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.