Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that two men were assaulted while in custody at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond. However, he said a cellphone video obtained by a family member and shared with Mississippi Today does not depict the attack inside the troubled jail.
Jones told Mississippi Today that 26-year-old Isaac Gibson and 22-year-old Quandarius Beasley were injured in the same housing unit in the early morning hours of April 23 and taken to the jail’s medical bay following a “detainee-on-detainee” attack.
The sheriff said the attack is under investigation, and the attackers have not been identified…