The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

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An inmate already behind bars for an acid attack has now been jailed for life for slashing a fellow prisoner's face.

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Sac County sheriff's deputies subdued an inmate who stripped in his cell before climbing through the 14-by-8 food pass-through door at mealtime and chasing the jailer.

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The sheriff wrote it “would have been a reasonable precaution for the Scottish Prison Service prior to September 2021, to have removed and replaced the toilet cubicle door in Jack’s cell, or ...

PRISON service bosses were today savaged by a judge for “closing ranks” after a young inmate took his own life in a youth jail branded a “dungeon of despair”. A fatal accident inquiry ...

Prison officers failed to properly check up on an inmate who had taken his own life in prison, a probe has found. Jack McKenzie was pronounced dead in his cell at Polmont Young Offenders Institute ...

Failing to discipline prison officers after an inmate took his own life “condoned” bad practice at a young offenders’ institution, the Scottish Prison Service has been warned by a sheriff.

Jack McKenzie was pronounced dead on 3 September 2021 after hanging himself using the toilet cubicle door in his cell. A similar inquiry was also conducted into the deaths of Katie Allan and William ...