A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas ...

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

The Sentencing Project's new fact sheet highlights a dramatic increase in the number of women incarcerated in the US, with ...

House Bill 29, legislation that enshrines female inmates' access to feminine hygiene products and showers, lands on Gov.

About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

Under the temporary restraining order, prison officials are barred from allowing male inmates to enter or remain in ...

The Trump administration is eliminating prison standards that protect transgender, intersex, and gender-nonconforming inmates ...

Inmate Carolyn Arnett approached a pastor at the all-women's McPherson Unit prison with something she wanted to get off her ...

Governor Larry Rhoden stopped by the currently under-construction Women’s Prison in Rapid City earlier today to discuss the ...

Around 20 women claim deputies rounded them up and filmed brutal strip searches in the San Francisco County Jail ...

Some inmates at the Shimo la Tewa women prison are earninghandsomely as they serve their sentences. The prison has a variety of programmes meant to equipinmates with skills in preparation for life ...