Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a prison Despite a prison population with 4,000 fewer incarcerated people than a decade ago, uses of force ...

A Mississippi judge continued the sentencing of a Simpson County deputy who pleaded guilty to using excessive force on a ...

A federal judge on Wednesday agreed two state prison employees could be sued for allegedly using excessive force against an incarcerated man. Jared Lee Chavez, representing himself, alleged “Sgt.

A Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy will serve four months in prison on a misdemeanor conviction for using excessive force after the new Trump-appointed US attorney offered an unusual plea deal despite a ...

A former Los Angeles County deputy who was found guilty of using excessive force against a woman in 2023 had his sentence significantly reduced after the Department of Justice intervened. Trevor Kirk, ...

In South Bend today, a federal civil trial began brought by two inmates at the Indiana State Prison, alleging that two firefighters used excessive force by spraying them with a fire hose on April 30, ...

A former Hendry County sheriff's deputy convicted of using excessive force will spend just few than three years in federal prison, a judge ruled this week. District Judge Sheri P. Chappell sentenced ...

About a decade after teens accused a Springfield police detective of excessive force during a controversial 2016 arrest, one of the teens at the center of the case has been sentenced to prison for a ...

FILE - In this image taken from police body camera footage provided by Los Angeles Sheriff's office, a Sheriff's deputies arrests a couple in a grocery store parking lot in Lancaster, Calif., on June ...