At a meeting Wednesday, Allegheny County Council rejected an effort to overturn a ban on leg shackles at the jail.

Ohio inmate Tommy Meadows won a $404,000 jury award in a civil rights lawsuit. Meadows was pepper sprayed and put into ...

Allegheny County Jail corrections officers may be allowed to use leg shackles when taking incarcerated people to medical appointments if county council approves a measure repealing a portion of the ...

Corrections officers at the Allegheny County Jail and their supporters are forging ahead with an effort to overturn parts of a ban on the use of leg-shackles and other restraints. But opponents warn ...

We’ll never be able to truly understand the horrors our ancestors went through during chattel slavery in America, but one white woman is now going viral after an immersive experience at a local ...

An agreement has been hammered out to address safety concerns raised by Allegheny County corrections officers transporting incarcerated people for medical appointments. Under its terms, police ...