Across the state, multiple lawsuits involving more than 90 incarcerated men allege brutal beatings and waterboarding by ...

The officers allegedly were part of the Corrections Emergency Response Team, also known as CERT. Civil rights attorney Andrew Stroth said the unit has a pattern of abusing inmates and called it ...

Deaths in Missouri prisons have increased in number despite a drop in the number of people incarcerated. The Missouri ...

Higher levels of force, involving the use of nonlethal weapons, include the deployment of the Corrections Emergency Response Team, which must be approved by the watch commander, Schwartz said.

Members of the Correctional Emergency Response Team, or CERT, responded and one inmate submitted to restraints without further incident. Vance said the other inmate refused for nearly four hours.