A former female prison guard received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a six-month sexual relationship with a ...

Some employees at a federal prison in Bryan, Texas, which holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell, said they ...

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 ...

Sexual assaults, attempted rapes, voyeurism, and "a pervasive climate of sexual intimidation" by trans inmates are alleged, ...

A lack of “basic care” for women in prisons causes such distress that some inmates resort to harming themselves, inspectors have warned amid rising levels of self-harm in jails. Inspectors have ...

Vivienne Taylor was sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to stalking and causing serious alarm or distress A ...

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 ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

The Justice Department says it will investigate allegations that Maine has allowed a transgender inmate to remain housed with women despite complaints that the inmate has assaulted or harassed other ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.