Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a prison Despite a prison population with 4,000 fewer incarcerated people than a decade ago, uses of force ...

Federal law enforcement agents have since mid-September used excessive force against peaceful protesters, legal observers, volunteer street medics, and journalists during demonstrations outside a US ...

Most of the complaints are handwritten in ballpoint pen and sent from prisons to federal courts through the U.S. mail. The particulars about the incidents vary, but fear of correctional officers is a ...

The Supreme Court is seen in the distance, framed through columns of the U.S. Senate at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 20, 2025. File photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP The U.S. Supreme Court ruled ...