An Accomack County Sheriff's Deputy has been fired and charged with assault and battery after being accused of assaulting an ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Four former Angola Prison supervisory correctional officers were sentenced Thursday for assaulting a shackled and handcuffed inmate who was not resisting. The officers, 43 ...

Several public schools in the Gadsden County School District were placed on lockdown at 11 a.m. Sept. 29 as a precaution after a convict escaped from the county courthouse. "We ask that parents not ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma jail inmate, after being booked into jail, was able to leave the booking area unsupervised and raped a handcuffed female inmate who was awaiting release, according to ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of “sheer, ...

A former prisoner at the Burlington County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the facility and county officials, claiming he was ordered to strip and was severely beaten after he flooded his ...

Charles Adair, 50, turned himself in on July 4 on multiple misdemeanor traffic warrants, and died the following day while in custody Charles Adair, 50, died on July 5 while in custody at the Wyandotte ...

LANSING — A video of Michigan prison officers in riot gear confronting a caged and handcuffed inmate and twice spraying him with chemical agents has become a central issue in a federal court lawsuit.

FILE - This image provided by the New York State Attorney General office shows body camera footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, at the Marcy Correctional Facility in ...