A female prison warden has been charged with raping an inmate holed up inside a men’s jail. Johnesha Rucker, 28, was nabbed ...

The lawyer for a woman inmate who underwent a "traumatizing" body search wants to sue an Ontario prison for sexual assault and damages. John Hill, a lawyer for Tracy Curry, said his client was coerced ...

A federal judge ruled on March 31 that Beaufort County may be subject to liability for a strip-search policy for all women ...

A former OSU student who was strip searched at the Stillwater jail has accepted a $2.55 million settlement to end her lawsuit ...

A female inmate in Washington state is suing corrections officials after she says she was brutally attacked by a male-born prisoner housed in a women’s prison under the state’s gender-identity housing ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Authorities are investigating the death of a female inmate at the Genesee County Jail on Thursday. The Genesee County Sheriff's Office says the woman died from complications of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A male inmate was put in a holding cell with a female inmate at the Bullitt County jail last month. In a statement, jailer Bryan Whittaker said the incident happened March 26 ...

GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas — Two female inmates said they were sexually assaulted by correctional officers in Galveston earlier this year, leading to an investigation and at least two officers being ...

GALVESTON, Texas – Two correctional officers have been “relieved of duty” after a female inmate reported being sexually assaulted at Hospital Galveston, according to a release. The Texas Department of ...

The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it’s investigating whether California and Maine violate the rights of female inmates when they house them with transgender women. The investigation will focus ...