Webyears of messages from an encrypted whatsapp text thread show conversations of sheriff’s deputies, including those who terrorized mississippi residents. (ap) — a federal judge on thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former mississippi law. Websentencing hearings this week for six law enforcement officers, some of whom were members of the goon squad, revealed a disturbing portrait of a mississippi. Websix former law enforcement officers in mississippi have been charged with federal civil rights offenses against two black men who were brutalized for more than an. Weba former sheriff’s deputy who subjected mississippi residents to physical and sexual assaults was sentenced wednesday to 40 years in federal prison. Websix former mississippi law enforcement officers pleaded guilty monday to all state charges against them stemming from the torture and abuse this year of two black. Weba federal judge has postponed sentencing for six former mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for. Webaccording to a justice department investigation, deputies broke into the home of two black men, michael jenkins and eddie parker, shocked them with tasers.