Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records ...

For family of slain inmate, prison reform has become their mission

For Robert Brooks Jr., the murder of his father last year at the hands of multiple correction officers at Marcy Correctional ...

Why Are Guards Using Force More Often in New York’s Prisons?

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to ...
NBC 7 San Diego

Rikers Guards Beat Youth Inmates, Use Excessive Force: Feds

The city's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage inmates and subject ...
KLFY News 10

Family disputes official account of Nevada inmate’s death, alleging excessive force and a cover-up

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The family of a Nevada inmate who died in custody after he was pepper-sprayed, shackled and restrained is disputing the official account of his death in a coroner’s report while also ...

In a brutal Mississippi jail, inmates say they were enlisted as enforcers

Former inmates and guards said the violence at the Rankin County jail created a culture of fear and was widely accepted by officials as a way of keeping order, an investigation by Mississippi Today ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Family disputes official account of Nevada inmate's death, alleging excessive force and a cover-up

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The family of a Nevada inmate who died in custody after he was pepper-sprayed, shackled and restrained is disputing the official account of his death in a coroner's report while also ...