The Supreme Court is expected to be sympathetic to the religious rights of a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...

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

The high court’s review of a Rastafarian man’s case against Louisiana prison officials could decide whether inmates can get ...

Tennessee’s Department of Correction is seeking a $13 million contract increase for the state’s private-prison company amid questions about a riot and federal civil rights investigation. Correction ...

The trial of a sheriff’s deputy who was indicted for violating the civil rights of an inmate ended in a hung jury on Wednesday. Jeremiah Manuyag Flores was indicted in January for the use of ...

Tou Thao, one of the four fired Minneapolis police officers convicted in George Floyd’s killing during an arrest nearly 5½ ...

Commissioner Burl Cain said the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ Criminal Investigations Division will review all ...

A New York prisoner accused corrections officers of assault and sexual abuse. State officials deemed his claims unfounded despite footage of the encounter.

An inmate transferred from the Arkansas Department of Corrections to a federal facility in West Virginia earlier this year ...

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao was convicted on state and federal charges in connection with the death of George ...

A retired Lawrence police captain now living in Derry has been indicted on federal charges of falsifying a police report, after an alleged March 2023 assault on a prisoner in the Police Department ...

Most of the recent lawsuits against Blair County and its prison have focused on the living conditions endured by the inmates, but this week, two female visitors complained in a federal civil rights ...