A death at California’s largest women’s prison Every summer, incarcerated women at the Chowchilla prison flood the phone lines of community advocacy groups and attorneys’ offices, raising alarms about ...

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 ...

Four more female prison staff have appeared in court in separate cases, charged with misconduct over allegations that they ...

Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

Faith Booher-Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 by a 6’4” male child molester identifying as a transgender ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Two Montana communities have expressed substantial interest in becoming the location for a new ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two female jail detainees have filed a federal lawsuit against Shelby County after they say they were sexually assaulted by a male detainee after men were put in the women’s jail due ...

Several corrections officers have described a South Australian transgender prisoner ­accused of harassment, violence and ...

After years of complaints about hot temperatures inside prison cells, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates.