David Hartsook, of York, was sentenced to life after a jury found him guilty of shooting and killing Troy Rickenbach in Berks ...

Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections said Monday. The ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — One New York state corrections officer used pepper spray on the inmate. Another applied leg shackles to him. But they did nothing as their fellow guards brutally beat inmate Robert ...

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 ...