“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 ...

WTVR CBS 6 reporter Laura French tells the story like a family trying to hold onto the version of a man they knew, even as the official version of what happened to him is still being pieced together.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During a daylong hearing in Albany, state lawmakers heard from family members of men who died in New York State prisons in recent years. By Jan Ransom Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y.

NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) - A repeat felon is back in prison after he pled guilty to a brutal attack that happened in 2024. Prosecutors say that Edwaun Gibbs, 50, pled guilty to assault inflicting serious ...

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 ...

In court filings, the attorney general's office said officers acting "outside the scope" of their official duties are responsible for the death of Robert L. Brooks Gov. Kathy Hochul, center, at Marcy ...