After a violent scandal involving his deputies, a popular sheriff survived calls to resign. But another scandal was already ...

U.S. Attorney Brian D. Miller said the defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to use excessive force and cover it up between ...

Derek Rucker, 37, was featured in a Chicago Sun-Times series about mentally ill people who attack people in public places in ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of ...

A jury awarded a $16.8-million judgment to a doctor who alleged her employer did not respond appropriately to a threat she ...

A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges appalling conditions at California's largest immigration detention facility, a formerly mothballed prison in the desert where sewage bubbles up from shower ...

James Gibson is a busy man. The 59 year-old has his hand in a number of projects, from starting an investment firm to writing ...

FALL RIVER — A Fall River man convicted of child rape in 2016 is headed back to prison to serve an additional sentence for violating his probation. Richard Brown, 46, stipulated to a violation of his ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. A judge in August ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. Vedam and Thomas ...

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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.