The Kauai jail and two other facilities in Hawaii have the chairs, which require high levels of force to immobilize inmates ...

Fewer than one in five inmate complaints on Rikers Island over the last four years ever saw any resolution, including ...

An accused murderer locked up on Rikers Island beat a correction officer ... According to jail protocol, doors must be locked whether an inmate is inside or outside the cell.

MANHATTAN (CN) — As New York City works on closing the Rikers Island prison complex, a federal jury handed a mixed verdict Thursday to a corrections officer caught beating an inmate in surveillance ...

FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo shows the Rikers Island jail complex in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York City lawmakers are considering a plan to close the ...

A medical intern is attacked by a mentally ill inmate at Rikers Island in 2014. The mental health clinician who was stabbed in the Vierno Center in July 2023 needed stitches for his wounds.

HARRISBURG — Thirteen employees at a Pennsylvania state prison have been suspended without pay while the agency investigates the death of an inmate last week. Tyrone Briggs, 29, died Nov. 11 ...

In what is believed to be a first at the Cabarrus County Jail, one inmate has been charged in the death of another, authorities said Tuesday. Jamal Wright, 17, of Kannapolis was charged with ...

Police this week arrested a 53-year-old Providence man accused in the strangulation death of 41-year-old Kathleen O'Dowd Boleman behind Roger Williams Middle School in 1999. Kevin Williams faces a ...

A small plane has crashed on the Caribbean island of St Barthelemy, killing 19 people on board and one person on the ground. The Caribbean Airlines plane departed from Princess Juliana Airport on ...