A federal judge has approved a $6.75 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit over violence against inmates at a ...

Damien Ford produced something akin to a legal unicorn. Ford, who is housed at the East Arkansas Region Unit prison in ...

Cortlen Flax, a 37-year-old Woodbury resident, was convicted in July of attacking Julio Valdez in his cell at South Woods ...

Solitary confinement, or "the hole," is a costly and unregulated practice that violates human rights, increases mental health ...

A former officer with the Veterans Administration Police Department in Los Angeles was sentenced to one year in prison for ...

The inmates said the officers carried out a weekslong campaign of violence in 2020 at the state’s lone maximum security ...

A detention officer at a Conroe ICE facility pleaded guilty to using excessive force against a migrant detainee.

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

The beating of a former inmate by two former DeSoto Parish sheriff's deputies has gained national attention, leading to the ...

Terence Crosbie is serving his rape sentence inside the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center that has been home to some ...

Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has defended the use of force by agents accused of using pepper balls and tear gas ...