For sale: one barbaric torture device that could date back to medieval times. The wooden back-to-back interrogation chairs ...

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

After an attempted assassination of presidential candidate Trump, Ryan Routh wants to be send to a state permitting medical ...

Allegheny County Council struck down a measure Wednesday night to partly reverse the ban on restraining prisoners with leg ...

Museum officials identified several items stolen in the Tuesday, Nov. 4, burglary, and it's possible additional items were ...

INDIANAPOLIS–A prisoner escaped from the Community Justice Campus in Indianapolis Tuesday. IMPD posted about the incident on social media by saying that the prisoner escaped from the campus which ...

At a meeting Wednesday, Allegheny County Council rejected an effort to overturn a ban on leg shackles at the jail.

After deliberations that stretched over three days, jurors in the case of a man accused of fatally shooting his brother last ...

A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded guilty to mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in ...

Lower courts condemned the treatment of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, but found that a federal law protecting religious rights ...

Two clashes between rival gangs in a southern Ecuadorian prison left at least 31 inmates dead on Sunday, including 27 who were killed by “asphyxiation,” officials said.