The inmates said the officers carried out a weekslong campaign of violence in 2020 at the state’s lone maximum security ...

A federal judge took the rare step last week of concluding an incarcerated, self-represented plaintiff should be compensated ...

Lawyers for the incarcerated people say a state prison in Shirley has been "plagued with violence" since it opened in 1998.

A federal judge has approved a final $6.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit involving violence against prisoners ...

Demetrius Buckley, an award-winning prison writer, alleges officials retaliated against him for an article he published about ...

Drugs continue to be "routinely available" at a privately-run prison for men, a report has found. The Independent Monitoring ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is not sufficiently handling investigations into use-of-force complaints against officers, according to a review by the ...

More than 12,400 inmates across California have been fasting since Monday, to protest solitary confinement and call for improved prison conditions. The strike, involving roughly two-thirds of the ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Investigators said they found at least four policy violations at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, involving improper use of pepper spray, delayed response to ...