(ABC News) -- When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison guards brought her to a locked cell that inmates call the 'bird cage,' where he ...

Corrections officers at York County Prison used force on inmates nearly 300 times both last year and in 2021, but that's an improvement from a high of more than 500 just a few years earlier. The ...

A former Georgia sheriff convicted of ordering inmates to be held in chair restraints for hours without legal cause was sentenced to more than a year in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

When he returned to the prison, he said he was put in restraints for 20 hours, despite having long calmed down and no longer being at risk. “I had asked one correctional officer who was cuffing one of ...

An inmate restraint chair was used 29 times at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in 2019, state statistics show. That’s a decrease from 64 chair uses in 2018 — the year that deceased county ...

Tatiyanee Mackey, left, Shaheen Mackey Jr., and Chareina Blanding, niece of Shaheen Mackey, speak with members of the media on Wednesday after the release of a video showing Shaheen Mackey being ...

Virginia prison officials have tightened their policy on the use of restraints after a civil rights group alleged that at least 20 inmates from the District were shackled to their metal beds for 48 ...

CHARLESTON -- A man received prison time as part of his new sentence for a conviction for attacking a woman when they were both Eastern Illinois University students. Dustin M. Trosper faced ...

Prison staff who handcuffed an 87-year-old paedophile while he was dying of leukaemia have been criticised by an industry watchdog. Former youth worker Henry Day, from North Walsham, Norfolk, was ...