{"id":1864,"date":"2025-11-15T08:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:48:40","slug":"in-a-mississippi-jail-inmates-became-weapons-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Barbed-wire fencing surrounds the Rankin County Jail in Brandon, Mississippi.<\/span>Rory Doyle<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n

Chris Mack has<\/span> been locked up in Mississippi\u2019s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that left him with broken ribs, a broken nose, and two black eyes. But it wasn\u2019t just guards who attacked him. Mack said a group of inmates joined in\u2014men in the jail\u2019s Trusty Inmate Program, who had special privileges and wore blue jumpsuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were called the blue wave,\u201d Mack said.<\/p>\n

Through more than 70 interviews with former inmates and officers, reporters from Mississippi Today<\/a><\/em> and the New York Times<\/a> <\/em>discovered a system in which guards ordered beatings, inmates who participated were rewarded, and those trying to raise an alarm about the system for more than a decade were ignored.<\/p>\n

This week on Reveal<\/em>, on the heels of our reporting<\/a> on abuses in the Rankin County Sheriff\u2019s Department run by Sheriff Bryan Bailey, we expose a wave of violence in his county jail.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n


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