Editing Rankin County, Mississippi (section)

==Government==
The [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]] (MDOC) operates the [[Central Mississippi Correctional Facility]] (CMCF), located in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Rankin County.<ref name="Stateprisons">"[http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/division_of_institutions%20State%20Prisons.htm State Prisons] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021206092421/http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/division_of_institutions%20State%20Prisons.htm |date=2002-12-06 }}." [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on May 21, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/mdoc%20quick%20reference.htm MDOC QUICK REFERENCE]." [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on May 21, 2010.</ref> CMCF houses the state's female death row inmates.<ref name="Stateprisons"/> MDOC also operates the Brandon Probation and Parole Office in [[Brandon, Mississippi|Brandon]].<ref>"[http://www.mdoc.state.ms.us/MDOCmap/support/rankin.htm Rankin County]." [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved on September 15, 2010.</ref> In 2007 the [[Mississippi Highway Patrol]] opened a driver's license facility across the highway from the prison.<ref>"[http://www.wapt.com/news/12940442/detail.html New Driver's License Facility Opens In Pearl"], ''[[WAPT-TV]]''. April 23, 2007. Retrieved on May 21, 2010.</ref>

The [[Mississippi State Hospital]] of the [[Mississippi Department of Mental Health]] is in [[Whitfield, Rankin County, Mississippi|Whitfield]] in unincorporated Rankin County.<ref>"[http://www.msh.state.ms.us/CampusMap/Map_11x17_vert.pdf Whitfield Campus Map]." [[Mississippi State Hospital]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://msh.state.ms.us/directions.htm Driving Directions to MSH]." [[Mississippi State Hospital]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref> It occupies the former [[Rankin Farm]] prison grounds.<ref name="Move">''Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940: Population''. [[Bureau of the Census]], 1941. [https://books.google.com/books?id=82pQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Mississippi+State+Hospital%22+%22Rankin+Farm%22&pg=PA572 572]. Retrieved on [[Google Books]] on August 12, 2011.</ref> In 1935, the Mississippi State Insane Asylum moved from a complex of 19th-century buildings in northern [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], the capital, to its existing location.<ref name="Cole331">Cole, Hunter. ''The Legs Murder Scandal''. [[University Press of Mississippi]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JC3kwQTAbE8C&dq=%22thirty-five+hundred+acres+of+farmland%22&pg=PA331 331]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on October 31, 2010. {{ISBN|1-60473-722-0}}, {{ISBN|978-1-60473-722-6}}</ref>

The [[Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality]] operates the Central Regional Office and the MDEQ Laboratory in unincorporated Rankin County.<ref>"[http://www.deq.state.ms.us/mdeq.nsf/page/FS_Centralregionaloffice Central Regional Office]." [[Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality]]. Retrieved on September 21, 2010.</ref><ref name="MDEQOffices">"[http://www.deq.state.ms.us/mdeq.nsf/page/About_DirectionstoMDEQOffices Locations and Driving Directions to MDEQ Offices]." [[Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality]]. Retrieved on September 21, 2010.</ref>

Rankin County is one of the most conservative counties in the state, with Republican candidates normally receiving 70% or so of the popular vote. The county last supported the official Democratic candidate for president in 1956, which is also the last time a Democrat got even 40 percent of the county's vote. While conservative Democrats held most local offices well into the 1980s, there are almost no elected Democrats remaining above the county level.

=== Law enforcement ===
The [[Mississippi Department of Public Safety]] operates the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers' Training Academy (MLEOTA) on a {{convert|243|acre|ha|adj=on}} property in Rankin County, near CMCF and the MSH, {{convert|10|mi|km}} from Jackson.<ref>"[http://www.dps.state.ms.us/highway-patrol/training-academies/mleota/ Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers’ Training Academy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414040656/http://www.dps.state.ms.us/highway-patrol/training-academies/mleota/ |date=2012-04-14 }}," [[Mississippi Department of Public Safety]]. Retrieved on April 16, 2012.</ref>

====Department of Justice torture investigation====
{{main|Rankin County torture incident}}
In February 2023, the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] opened a civil rights investigation into conduct of the Rankin County Sheriffs department.  The investigation is centered on a [[Rankin County torture incident|January 24, 2023, incident]] where deputies searched the house of Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker.  Jenkins and Parker, both African-Americans,  experienced six deputies turning-off their body cameras, torturing the men for two hours, shocking them with tasers, repeatedly shouting racial slurs, and shooting one of them in the mouth. All accused officers pled guilty and were convicted.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statement from FBI Jackson |url=https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/jackson/news/statement-from-fbi-jackson |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Adams |first=Ross |title=Rankin County Sheriff's Office subject of federal civil rights investigation |date=February 18, 2023 |url=https://www.wapt.com/article/rankin-county-sheriffs-office-subject-of-federal-civil-rights-investigation/42959623 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men |url=https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-black-violent-arrests-61acf712b13fc3c77dce76e508fa94c1 |website=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405124219/https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-black-violent-arrests-61acf712b13fc3c77dce76e508fa94c1 |archive-date=April 5, 2023 |url-status=live |last1=Goldberg |first1=Michael |access-date=March 28, 2023 }}</ref>

In June 2023, Jenkins and Parker filed a $400M lawsuit against Sheriff Bryan Bailey and six deputies.   In late June, the Sheriff announced that some deputies involved had been terminated or resigned from their jobs, and that the department hired a "compliance officer" to monitor the Sheriff department's daily operations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Elamroussi |first=Shawn Nottingham,Aya |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Multiple deputies fired after 2 Black men file lawsuit alleging torture and attempted sexual assault in Mississippi |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/us/rankin-county-mississippi-officers-fired-lawsuit-black-men/index.html |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 28, 2023 |title=Five Mississippi deputies in alleged violent episode against 2 Black men fired or quit - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-deputies-alleged-violent-episode-two-black-men-fired-or-quit-rankin-county/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}
</ref>  An investigation by the [[Associated Press]] determined that the Sheriff's Special Response Team had been involved in four violent incidents with African-Americans since 2019, resulting in two deaths.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2023 |title=Deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men |url=https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-black-violent-arrests-61acf712b13fc3c77dce76e508fa94c1 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 27, 2023 |title=Deputies accused of abusing Black men are fired by Mississippi sheriff amid federal probe |url=https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-sherrifs-civil-rights-investigation-94b831ebfd8954c8a0fcce268f198139 |access-date=July 5, 2023 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

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