WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where a mentally ill man infested with lice died in 2022 from neglect, systematically violates the constitutional rights of the people it ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who ...

Two men charged with murder in connection with a deadly shooting two years ago in east Bakersfield are scheduled for trial in ...

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K.

A 16-year-old detained at a juvenile detention center needed nine stitches after federal prosecutors said he was dragged into a private room, beaten and stomped on by two supervisors at the facility.

claiming the initial decision to deny him bail was unfairly “distorted” by the attention on the case (the initial judge, who has since been replaced, ruled Combs should stay in jail so he can ...