“A $1.3 million verdict exposed prison brutality. Now DOC wants to hide the evidence.” Last October, a federal jury in Connecticut sent a resounding message, awarding $1.3 million to an incarcerated ...

Accounts from activists describe abuse and possible exploitation in detention, raising concerns over human rights and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of detainees were tortured and killed there under the Assad regime. Syrian lawyer Lama Rifai has been documenting ...

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 ...

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Abuse by guards has increased significantly in the past three years, a New York Times investigation found. By James Barron See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a bomb dropped on the prison where Anoosheh Ashoori once thought he would die a hostage, he did not cheer. Videos gleefully shared by Iranians across the world showed smoke billowing from the ...

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 ...