A former Erie County Prison corrections officer accused of punching a shackled inmate at the prison in late June waived his criminal case to court at his preliminary hearing on Monday. Mark A. Lindsey ...

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a former Maricopa County jail inmate can sue the sheriff’s office for shackling her while she was in labor and as she left the hospital after ...

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands ...

NORTH HERO, Vt. — A Vermont sheriff went on trial Monday for a second time on a charge of simple assault for kicking a shackled detainee twice in the groin in 2022 when he was a captain after a judge ...

A Nevada coroner’s office ruled that an inmate who was pepper-sprayed, shackled and restrained with his face to the ground was killed by prison guards. An autopsy report revealed that 39-year-old ...

A better van-tage point. Wild video showed a shirtless and shackled inmate hanging out the back of a corrections van as it sped down an Oklahoma freeway — while the man begged for help from drivers.

DENVER - An inmate was shackled to a chair for five and a half days without exercise or sleep at the Colorado state prison because officials suspected him of swallowing bags of heroin and wanted to ...

A screenshot from a video of officers at the U.S. penitentiary in Thomson, Ill., holding an incarcerated person in a four-point restraint. (U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois) One ...

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for more than two days. Another was held in restraints so tight that, afterward, part of a limb had to be amputated. A third person was ...