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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Accomack County Sheriff's Deputy has been fired and charged with assault and battery after being accused of assaulting an ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A federal prosecutor says handcuffed inmates screamed and groaned in pain and begged for the beatings to stop as sheriff's deputies swung metal batons in an April 2011 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma jail inmate, after being booked into jail, was able to leave the booking area unsupervised and raped a handcuffed female inmate who was awaiting release, according to ...

An Orleans Parish Sheriff’s deputy allegedly shoved a handcuffed inmate into a doorframe in December, leading to the inmate being diagnosed with a collapsed lung from his injuries, according to an ...

UTICA, N.Y.(AP) — Three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of “sheer, unimaginable brutality,” a prosecutor told a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod at the Hamilton County Justice Center. A Hamilton County corrections officer was arrested Nov. 20 and accused of striking an ...

ST. LOUIS — The City of St. Louis has settled a lawsuit with Deputy Jail Commissioner Tammy Ross. The lawsuit alleged her civil rights were violated when Sheriff Alfred Montgomery ordered her to be ...

Prison staff have been criticised for keeping an inmate in handcuffs just days before he died from cancer. Jeffrey Earp was serving more than 14 years for a sickening robbery on an 88-year-old woman ...