A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner ...

A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...

Yaritza Colon, a former female inmate, is suing the state of New York for $20 million, alleging state prison officials failed to protect her from Pedro Norde, a correction officer she says forced her ...

April Youst pauses for a cigarette in her backyard in West Virginia on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, ...

Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

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 ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner of ...