Prison staff have been criticised for keeping an inmate in handcuffs just days before he died from cancer. Jeffrey Earp was serving more than 14 years for a sickening robbery on an 88-year-old woman ...

Charles Adair, 50, died on July 5 while in custody at the Wyandotte County Detention Center in Kansas City, Kan., of homicide caused by "complications of mechanical asphyxia" An affidavit filed in ...

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show. By Jan Ransom and Bianca Pallaro The reporters analyzed ...