Kwaneta Harris is an incarcerated journalist from Texas. She is a member of the mentorship program Empowerment Avenue, which ...

The women said they were beaten and sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints by Central California Women’s Facility ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

A judge has ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities.

U.S. Attorney Carin Duryee argued that Mitchell showed no remorse and remained dangerous, angry, and in denial.

Alicia Arceo Carrillo, 64, of Adelanto, died from her injuries at ... the driver of the 2009 Ford F-150 struck the female pedestrian within the open desert, causing fatal injuries," the statement ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison in exchange for unpaid community service. It is considered the first criminal policy with a gender focus in ...

Self-harm in women’s prisons has reached shocking new heights, according to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). One in three women in custody are self-harming – a rate eight times higher than in ...

The Montana Department of Corrections is considering Butte-Silver Bow and three other locations as possible sites for a new women’s prison if the Legislature appropriates $220 million for one ...