Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a prison Despite a prison population with 4,000 fewer incarcerated people than a decade ago, uses of force ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has revived a Maryland prisoner’s excessive force claim against two Eastern Correctional Institution officers, finding genuine disputes of material fact ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced Wednesday the arrest of a corrections officer accused of using excessive force against an inmate at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.

Seven Florida correctional officers have been charged with battery, excessive use of force and other offenses after allegedly beating a handcuffed inmate at Dade Correctional Institution in Florida ...

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to a different reality. By Bianca Pallaro and Jan Ransom New York State prison ...