HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division says it won’t retry a former Maryland correctional officer on charges that stymied a federal jury in a prison brutality case.

ISTANBUL, Turkey—Sitting inside a coffee shop in Istanbul, Turkey, on a rainy morning in December, Hiba Brais remembers the day in May 2011 that her father was arrested. She was alone at home with her ...

The Alabama Solution, a harrowing documentary about prison brutality and corruption, has been shortlisted for an Academy Award. The film, which is available to watch on HBO Max, has a 100% score on ...

Correction officers brutally beat Robert Brooks to death on video camera. Less than three months later, officers beat 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi to death. This nonchalant brutality takes place daily ...

LANCASTER — The prison inmates attacking and stabbing correction officers at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center earlier this week was captured on a “horrifying” video that “shocks the conscience.” ...

On Monday President Barack Obama, surrounded by members of his President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing—created in the wake of last year’s grand jury decisions in the police killings of Michael ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Lawrence Taylor, 44, will spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing his cellmate 43 times at the federal prison in Terre Haute. The murder, which prosecutors called "brutal ...

I have no idea whether John J. Geoghan, defrocked priest, child molester and now murder victim, appreciated irony -- especially in the last moments of his hideous and tormented life. But as he was ...