Hamilton County corrections officer Jordan Anderson is on leave after allegedly assaulting an inmate with a belt.

While acting as a corrections officer...Anderson removed his county-issued uniform belt and struck (the inmate) two times in ...

Incarcerated women in the U.S. are routinely punished for menstruating due to prison rules that fail to account for basic ...

Two men accused of running a scheme to get drugs and phones into Ohio prisons have learned their punishment. Cory Sutphin was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, and Charles Gibbs was sentenced ...

Professor Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law will speak on the American prison system and the transformation of punishment as part of the continuing UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings Social ...

DeSoto Correctional Institution, via the Florida Department of of Corrections. Inmates here are balking at being made to wear wristbands that can track their whereabouts. A Florida Department of ...

FILE - The Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center is surrounded by fencing in this 2017 file photo in Lancaster, Mass. Two months after two correctional officers were stabbed while working at ...

BUTNER, N.C. — A North Carolina federal prison supervisor has been convicted after investigators say he instructed a correctional officer to physically punish a man incarcerated at the institution by ...

Territory prison guards have been accused of using a spit hood punitively, dangerously, and unnecessarily against a disabled man in the grips of a medical emergency.