WTVR CBS 6 reporter Laura French tells the story like a family trying to hold onto the version of a man they knew, even as the official version of what happened to him is still being pieced together.

Correction officers brutally beat Robert Brooks to death on video camera. Less than three months later, officers beat 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi to death. This nonchalant brutality takes place daily ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey—Sitting inside a coffee shop in Istanbul, Turkey, on a rainy morning in December, Hiba Brais remembers the day in May 2011 that her father was arrested. She was alone at home with her ...

The Alabama Solution, a harrowing documentary about prison brutality and corruption, has been shortlisted for an Academy Award. The film, which is available to watch on HBO Max, has a 100% score on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of detainees were tortured and killed there under the Assad regime. Syrian lawyer Lama Rifai has been documenting ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Lawrence Taylor, 44, will spend the rest of his life in prison for stabbing his cellmate 43 times at the federal prison in Terre Haute. The murder, which prosecutors called "brutal ...

During a daylong hearing in Albany, state lawmakers heard from family members of men who died in New York State prisons in recent years. By Jan Ransom Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y.

On Monday President Barack Obama, surrounded by members of his President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing—created in the wake of last year’s grand jury decisions in the police killings of Michael ...

In court filings, the attorney general's office said officers acting "outside the scope" of their official duties are responsible for the death of Robert L. Brooks Gov. Kathy Hochul, center, at Marcy ...

I have no idea whether John J. Geoghan, defrocked priest, child molester and now murder victim, appreciated irony -- especially in the last moments of his hideous and tormented life. But as he was ...

We speak with Jose Saldaña, director of Release Aging People in Prison, about a wildcat strike by New York prison guards who claim limits on solitary confinement have made their work more dangerous.