Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

Demetrius Buckley, an award-winning prison writer, alleges officials retaliated against him for an article he published about ...

A jury found one of three corrections officer guilty of murder and manslaughter in the fatal beating of Robert Brooks in a ...

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri fired five deputies this week over two separate incidents of misconduct in the jail. One case involved a lieutenant, sergeant, corporal and deputy who watched, ...

LOWER MANHATTAN -- A prisoner who escaped from a hospital in Lower Manhattan on Sunday night is back in custody and she had a lot to say to the press as she was led away in handcuffs, again. "Hi, my ...

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

A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder in the death of an inmate beaten while handcuffed, while two ...

ABILENE, Texas -- A Texas inmate wriggled out of his handcuffs, broke the window of a patrol car and climbed onto the roof of the vehicle as it drove down the highway, according to local authorities.

Police said 35-year-old Diontae Green jumped out of a transport vehicle and ran away Tuesday morning before he was recaptured ...

The family of the inmate who was murdered at the Wyandotte County jail is threatening to sue unless the Unified Government agrees to pay a $25 million settlement.

Detainees report prison-like conditions inside the California City facility and lack of access to medical care. Advocates are ...