Mississippi Juvenile Detention Officers Indicted for Multiple Assaults and Cover-Up

Source: United States Department of Justice

Headline: Mississippi Juvenile Detention Officers Indicted for Multiple Assaults and Cover-Up

The Department of Justice today announced that an officer at the Leflore County Juvenile Detention Center in Greenwood, Mississippi was charged with assaulting two juveniles in his custody. The indictment, which was returned on Feb. 21, 2018 but unsealed today, alleges that Edward Gibson, 28, punched and threw an electric fan at one juvenile, and struck the other juvenile in the head and body.