CENTERVILLE — A convicted murderer who escaped from a prison transport bus in Texas last week got out of his restraints and a cage before stabbing the driver, and is still on the run Wednesday, ...

At least three jails broke Louisiana law by using shackles on female prisoners who were pregnant or even giving birth, a new state audit says. The audit also found that 65% of jails holding state ...

A federal inmate had to have one of his or her limbs partially amputated after being kept in restraints for two days. Another incarcerated person died after being pepper sprayed and left shackled in a ...