(CBS News) PARCHMAN, Miss. - In 1990, when former prison guard Christopher Epps was the deputy superintendent at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in rural Parchman, he oversaw the construction of a ...

A jury has cleared four Woodbury County jailers of a charge that they used excessive force after an inmate refused to change into jail-issued clothing.The Sioux City Journal reports the verdict ...

Three Tarrant County jail officers were arrested after one of them slammed an inmate into a concrete bunk and punched him, breaking the man's ribs and cheek and causing his lung to collapse, according ...