A Michigan lawmaker is calling for the resignation of the director of the Michigan Department of Corrections after the death ...

Khaira Howard, 28, had shared concerns about prison conditions, including toxic mold, with a state lawmaker's office and a ...

Kristine Scott and other women transferred to a minimum-security prison in Boise found themselves in segregated housing due ...

There are more than 1,000 women at SCI Muncy, one of only two women’s prisons in Pennsylvania; About 150 of those women are serving life without parole sentences. Nationally, more than half of the ...

A Washington female inmate is suing corrections officials, alleging a male-born prisoner attacked her under the state's gender-identity housing policy.

A Russian judge sentenced Olga Jezler to 10 years in prison on drug charges. Hostage advocacy groups say the charges are ...

A man who pleaded guilty to killing two women in Winnipeg more than a decade ago will have to remain in the halfway house ...

Conservative legal group demands Bureau of Prisons records after a woman was allegedly re-incarcerated for objecting to a ...

Narges Mohammadi denied medical leave from prison in spite of sharp decline in health and drastic weight loss, say lawyers ...

Data obtained from Israel Prison Service shows children and women among detainees increasingly being held in isolation ...