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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Attorney General Douglas Moylan's office on Tuesday started erecting billboards depicting a Department of Corrections inmate, ...

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 ...

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 ...

State prison officials are reviewing policies on shackling inmates after a coalition reached out over concerns that two women were restrained "throughout their laboring process" in recent months. The ...