Following an investigation by Mississippi Today and The New York Times, State Auditor Shad White initiated an investigation Thursday and alerted federal prosecutors.

In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found. McLain Farms in ...

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is facing scrutiny after a joint investigation found that inmates from the county jail labored his farm.

In Mississippi, a sheriff accused of staffing his family ... acknowledged that Sheriff Bailey had sent inmates from the Rankin County jail to work at his mother’s farm, but said the inmates ...