Corrections Officers at the Allegheny County Jail are pushing to bring back the use of leg shackles during hospital visits.

At a public safety committee meeting, corrections officers argued the shackles are needed on hospital runs, which they say ...

They are not allowed to use leg shackles during the transport, in the hospital and on the return trip to the jail. “President Englert and his union have argued against giving away transports.

Although the guards and shackles imply that health care workers are vulnerable when caring for incarcerated patients, the literature shows that, in fact, incarcerated people are the ones who are ...

Shackles, shock troops, windowless cells: How bad is Trump's favorite Salvadoran prison? El Salvador's notorious maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center is harsh, dangerous and cruel.

These inmates will come from the Jetson Correctional Institute near Baton Rouge, the only state prison still holding women. While Warden Kristen Thomas of LCIW says they plan to eventually fill ...

Tamwoy eventually had a medical episode in prison, was rushed to hospital and died. There have been similar cases reported in other states, including one investigated by a coroner in South ...