Read Mississippi Today’s Pulitzer Prize finalist series

Mississippi Today’s “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs” investigation has been named a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.

The 2023 investigation by 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 enormous power, exploiting and abusing the people they are charged with protecting, without someone stops them. .

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The 2023 seven-part series, which will continue into 2024, included new details about the Rankin County “Goon Squad.”

Click on the links below to read the Pulitzer Prize-recognized series.

Sex abuse, assault and an untouchable sheriff from Mississippi

Where the sheriff is king, these women say he forced them to have sex

New evidence raises questions about the controversial killings of law enforcement officers in Mississippi

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 raise

Who is the sheriff investigating? In Mississippi, often no one.

READ MORE: The complete series “Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs”.