Police dispersed a crowd of juveniles fighting in Downtown Pittsburgh on Sunday.

It took several administrators, a security guard and the school resource officer to break up the fight, officials said.

The Correction Department uses pepper spray disproportionately on mentally ill detainees when they are passively not following orders, are arguing or trying to hang themselves, a Board of Correction ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California civil rights organizations filed a complaint Monday with the Justice Department asking for a federal investigation into the use of pepper spray in San Diego County’s ...

A new proposal being considered by the New York City Council would limit correction officers' use of pepper spray to control inmates acting out in the city's jails. The bill, introduced Thursday, ...

ALBANY, NY (WNYT) – Kei Mani said she along with others were pepper sprayed by an Albany Police Officer early Sunday morning.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — WFMY News 2 obtained a video involving a pepper spray incident at Flat Rock Middle School in Winston-Salem. A deputy used the pepper spray to break up a fight during a school ...

Correction officers on Rikers Island are increasingly using pepper spray to subdue detainees who fight guards or try to kill themselves, according to an oversight report released on Wednesday. The ...

Except in rare emergencies, NYC correction officers will no longer be allowed to use pepper spray to protect themselves or inmates on Rikers Island and other Big Apple jails, under a “reckless” new ...

WASHINGTON — Pepper spray could become permanently legal to buy and use in D.C. under a new crime bill. Introduced by DC Councilmember Brooke Pinto on Wednesday, the Secure Omnibus includes provisions ...

After the final whistle, Pedrinho, president of Vasco, went after referee Lucas Paulo Torezin in the tunnel to the locker ...

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