Officer Jovian Motley died at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Wainwright Unit in Lovelady, in what was supposed to be a routine inmate cell extraction.

Video from inside a Riverside County jail shows a violent confrontation in October 2020 in which 10 sheriff’s deputies burst into the cell of a man who was having delusions and resisting medical care, ...

A violent encounter captured on video was part of a surge in jail deaths that spurred an inquiry into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. By Christopher Damien Christopher Damien is reporting ...

A 15th corrections officer has been indicted in connection with a January 2021 incident at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women where inmates were allegedly forcibly removed from cells ...

The use of dogs to threaten and attack prisoners to facilitate cell extractions has been a well-kept secret, even in the world of corrections. Human Rights Watch has spoken with more than two dozen ...

Editor's note: Christopher Damien is reporting about law enforcement in Southern California’s inland and desert communities for The New York Times and The Desert Sun as part of The Times’s Local ...