A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Maine Legislative Republicans are demanding immediate changes in the state's women's prisons.

Forty-nine women inmates at a Pennsylvania prison suffered carbon monoxide poisoning believed to have come from a malfunctioning heating system, authorities said Thursday. The women became sick around ...

Judges rejected a transgender woman's complaint that her court-ordered placement in an all-gender treatment facility is ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A former corrections officer at the Indiana Women's Prison was sentenced after raping an inmate at the prison. Uzochukwu Chinweze was sentenced to 11 years after being found guilty of ...

Matthew Roy stands in front of the Maine Correctional Center last month. His wife, Katie Mountain, is one of several women ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

“Incredibly serious” claims have been made about a Sydney maximum security women’s prison, with allegations inmates have turned to tissues and old uniforms amid a shortage of sanitary products. But ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. “For years, officials have used ‘because PREA’ as ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...