It started the first night Joe Booth was placed with his new cellmate at the Richard Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. 'He grabbed my ankle and pulled me off the bed … He had a weapon that ...

Apr. 14—A Metropolitan Detention Center inmate is suing Bernalillo County, alleging that three correctional officers sexually abused him late last year. The plaintiff, suing as "John Doe," claims that ...

GRAND FORKS — In March, Grand Forks correctional officer Joseph Michael Hulst was charged with sexually abusing an inmate. Now awaiting trial, Hulst’s case is an exception, since most allegations of ...

Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), and the United States became the first country to officially commit to ending sexual assault ...

A month after a guard was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting inmates at the women’s jail in Lynwood, auditors touring the lockup noted a number of troubling practices that could lead to ...