Judges dismissed others for failing to meet the malicious-and-sadistic standard, or due to doctrines that protect law enforcement officials like prison guards. Judges rarely questioned the ...

When a busload of angry corrections officers stomped inmates one morning at Mid-State Correctional Facility, they made it clear that no word of the violence was to escape the prison walls.

A guard, William Quinn, had been killed. Negotiations had ended. The men on the D yard waited for the inevitable. Four days earlier, on September 9, 1971, 1,281 prisoners had wrested control of Attica ...

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentence of an inmate who murdered a prison guard the day after the 30th anniversary of the horrific act. Inmate Anthony Battle struck Correctional Officer D ...

Dozens of New York prison guards and their supervisors brutally attacked a dorm full of unsuspecting inmates — punching, kicking and sodomizing prisoners and destroying their personal items ...

The majority of the 37 individuals whose sentences were commuted Monday were convicted for less high-profile offenses, such as murders tied to drug trafficking or the killings of prison guards or ...

as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities. “I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a ...

The president’s announcement also comes less than two weeks after he commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID ...

Spencer Rattler stood at the podium in his black hoodie and New Orleans Saints hat glancing around at the media room before getting his thoughts out. "Just embarrassing," Rattler said.