Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office ...

Of the Bay Area’s nine counties, Alameda is one of three allowing juvenile hall officers to pepper-spray incarcerated youth.

Video shows Narciso Barranco being punched by Border Patrol agents as they try to take him into custody in the middle of a ...

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran says he was shocked to see a video on social media of his father being beaten by masked U.S.

The son of a landscaper who was punched by a federal agent when he was taken into custody over the weekend in Santa Ana met ...

An ex-Riverside County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a wanted man in what he contended was self-defense behaved like a "cowboy," unjustifiably creating a lethal situation, a prosecutor said today, ...