Report: Prison Guards Claim Segregation
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Prison guards claim state officials lied to the U.S. Supreme Court about racial segregation in California's prisons and the extent to which race is used to set prison policies, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
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The acquittal of seven guards and a nurse charged in the death of a teenage boot-camp inmate has renewed calls for reform of the state's troubled corrections system
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments in an unusual segregation case, challenged California state lawyers Tuesday over a prison policy that separates inmates by race for their first 60 days behind bars.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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By Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 13--Juries are prejudiced by seeing defendants wearing prison garb and shackles, the Sixth District Court of Appeals said Tuesday in its reversal of a 26-year sentence handed down in Monterey County Superior Court.
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Inmates were severely beaten, cells were ransacked and set on fire, and a female librarian was trapped with dozens of convicts during a riot last summer at a privately run prison, according to a state report released Tuesday.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The clock read 4 am Wednesday in their apartment when Illinois guard Dee Brown turned to his roommate, fellow guard Luther Head, and said, &quot;Do you know what&#39;s going to happen tomorrow?
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Florida prison officials took part in "drunken" orgies and ran the system like the mafia, a former prison boss tells CNN. James McDonough says he had to clean up the prison culture, but it wasn't easy. "They were like frat boys out of control."
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Concerns about rehabilitation and conditions at Peterhead Prison are revealed in an official report.
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Guards at Guantanamo Bay bragged about beating detainees and described it as common practice, a Marine sergeant said in a sworn statement obtained by The Associated Press.
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WASHINGTON -- An Army inquiry into prisoner abuse in Iraq has found that almost three dozen intelligence personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison either colluded with guards to mistreat detainees, personally abused and tortured inmates, or ignored the abuse, officials said yesterday.
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DAXING, China -- Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each...
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A prison inspection discovers "startling" levels of inmates crowded into  Aberdeen prison.
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BEIJING, Aug.21(Xinhuanet) -- Writing in the British medical journal Lancet, Professor Steven Miles of Minnesota University says some medics had collaborated with abusive guards at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, and called for an inquiry into the role ...
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School segregation saga has dragged the state into a confrontation with its segregationist past that illuminates the uneasy race relations of its present.
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Three death row inmates were well under way in plotting an escape through ventilation shafts and likely had outside help, possibly from prison employees, according to a warden's report.