The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 women who say correctional officers injured them during a mass use-of-force ...

The Office of the Inspector General reviewed use of force investigations involving prison guards. Investigations were closed without reviewing potentially key evidence. California’s prison system has ...

Surveillance footage newly obtained by KQED sheds light on a mass use-of-force incident at the Central California Women’s Facility in 2024. The incident resulted in discipline for more than 40 staff ...

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show. By Jan Ransom and Bianca Pallaro The reporters analyzed ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A confrontation between an inmate and corrections officers at a Washington state women's prison prompted policy changes after investigators found officers violated protocol during the ...

A former Hendry County sheriff's deputy convicted of using excessive force will spend just few than three years in federal prison, a judge ruled this week. District Judge Sheri P. Chappell sentenced ...

Following two inmate deaths, grand juries have repeatedly recommended York County Prison re-think its Taser use. Taser usage doubled in 2022, the year after a grand jury first advised against it, but ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Two lawmakers on the prison task force said Thursday some of their key takeaways from two days of meetings in Sioux Falls was a men’s prison needs space for inmate education ...