A growing number of state prison systems will soon require guards to wear body cameras or are considering laws that would put such requirements in place. Prison systems hope the body cameras will help ...

Months after giving birth, guards found a woman dead inside a state prison cell in northeast Georgia. Now, the circumstances surrounding Sheqweetta Vaughan's death have non-profit leaders concerned.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — A $500 million lawsuit claiming Michigan’s women’s prison was engaging in “state-sponsored voyeurism” has been dismissed.

After New York State agreed in February 2020 to pay $5 million to the family of an inmate who died in an upstate prison, state officials made a separate $5 million pledge: 1,000 body-worn cameras for ...

Four prison guards pleaded guilty in the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate in Upstate New York whose brutal beating in a prison infirmary was caught on body-camera video. Brooks, 43, died on Dec. 10, ...