Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

The videos appear to bolster lawsuits claiming guards used force against California prisoners after they filed sexual ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Isabelle Dale was a teenager when she joined the prison service. Within months of starting work as an officer at HMP Coldingley she had sworn “undying love” to two prisoners, had sex with one of them ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

The campaign group For Women Scotland is challenging the current policy on transgender prisoners.

Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — Governor Larry Rhoden stopped by the currently under-construction Women’s Prison in Rapid City earlier today to discuss the progress. The new Women’s Prison will house up to ...