A Los Angeles County program that trains formerly incarcerated people for firefighting careers recently launched its first ...

Women in prison are four times as likely to report having been raped in their lifetime than those who are not incarcerated ...

Incarcerated women, who are almost all survivors of childhood abuse, domestic violence, or sex trafficking, are at risk of further victimization at a high rate..

Campaigners say the Scottish Prison Service opened the floodgates for violent trans ­prisoners to switch into female jails in ...

Legislators advance bills for a new prison and to help closed sawmills, but the debates include property taxes.

Exclusive: A member of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee claims Sir Keir Starmer is telling trans people to put themselves in harm’s way ...

A death row inmate who killed a Visalia man and a lesbian couple in Oregon died at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Though this question is not new, it has taken on an urgency as the case of a Maryland man accidentally deported to a prison in El Salvador has highlighted the White House’s increasingly ...

said what happened to the women and to Garcia, the man deported from Maryland, shows that the government is making mistakes when it chooses whom to send to the prison in El Salvador.

Despite being held in a high-security unit, Abedi, 28, attacked three prison officers on Saturday with improvised blades and hot cooking oil. In a letter seen by the BBC, the families say Abedi ...

A Dubai court has sentenced four African women to life in prison for trafficking narcotics. They will also be deported following the completion of their sentences. The case began when the Dubai ...