AS my dress was pulled off me and I was pushed towards my bed, I knew I was going to be raped – and there was nothing I could ...

(Emmett Tatter is a writer who spent nearly 10 years in Florida prisons. He has recently finished a book, lectured at Flagler ...

Love behind bars is one thing, but for these British women, romance has crossed an extraordinary and deeply controversial ...

A federal judge has ordered the Oregon Department of Corrections to house transgender women in state prisons based on their gender identity and only after completing safety assessments on each case.

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — State lawmakers are demanding answers from prison officials following the state’s $1.9 million settlement nearly two years after guards inside California’s largest women’s prison ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – A former Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility corrections officer accused of engaging in sexual acts with multiple prisoners while working at the facility has pleaded ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Mileidy Mendoza and Sandra Rosales stood vigil at the gates of a detention center in Venezuela’s capital as a police officer barked names into the night. With each call, a ...

Mileidy Mendoza and her children ride a bus from Caracas to visit her husband, Eric Diaz, imprisoned on political grounds at the Yare prison complex in San Francisco de Yare, Venezuela, Sunday, April ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing an investigation into gender self-identification policies in women’s prisons. The decision comes against the backdrop of ...

Prison reform advocates are ringing the alarm bells about the conditions at a state correctional facility after several recent deaths. It just might not be the one you’re thinking of. Activists and ...

An infamous Nigerian love scammer who swindled mostly elderly women out of nearly $1 million is on the run after failing to turn herself in for the start of an eight-year prison sentence. Federal ...