A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child ...

Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped them and retaliated when ...

Officials are planning to spend tens of millions of pounds moving hundreds of female criminals out of jail to make room for more male offenders. Documents accidentally released by the Ministry of ...

No other place in the world incarcerates women at a higher rate than South Dakota, according to research by a prison-focused nonprofit, and the construction of a second women’s prison in the state ...

Rose a 32-year-old sex worker who was arrested in a police raid was a bundle of nerves when advocate Sunita Salsingikar first ...

Most of the recent lawsuits against Blair County and its prison have focused on the living conditions endured by the inmates, but this week, two female visitors complained in a federal civil rights ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...