Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...

The in-mates’ best interests “are not well served by featuring in a television documentary”, the committee said.

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Women who were allegedly recorded during strip searches by prison guards' body cameras told Newsweek in exclusive interviews that the mental and emotional aftermath has led to fear, anger and the ...

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Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday. Wilson, 34, is ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

IONE — Two women were killed during conjugal visits with their incarcerated partners inside Mule Creek State Prison months apart last year, sparking questions about safety, rehabilitation, and justice ...

Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...