Associated Press
- Mississippi's Rankin County Sheriff's Department is beset by violent controversy.
- A court convicted five Rankin deputies in August for torturing two Black men.
- A lawsuit now alleges the department ignored an inmate's health condition until it was too late.
The Rankin County Sheriff's Department is facing another lawsuit.
Katie Carson sued the department in federal court in November, accusing jail employees of doing nothing to prevent Christopher Ray, with whom she has a child, from dying by suicide inside the jail in 2021. The lawsuit names Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey and six county-jail employees as defendants.