A Guatemalan man with a criminal background who is in the country illegally was sentenced to federal prison for assaulting ...

Isabelle Dale was a teenager when she joined the prison service. Within months of starting work as an officer at HMP ...

Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women ...

(Excerpted from ‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ by Seema Azad, translated by Shailza Sharma, with permission from ...

Visakhapatnam: Andhra Pradesh's central prisons remain severely overcrowded. Over 70% of the inmate population are ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

Two women made allegations of sexual abuse, including being forced to engage in oral sex, groping and offers of clean water and other basic supplies in exchange for sexual acts. The Sheriff’s ...

I am enormously relieved that the separation from my only daughter, Maaysha, has ended. we can speak to each other every day.

Frenchie Mae Cumpio and her former roommate were convicted of financing terrorism and sentenced to up to 18 years in prison.

In addition to guilty verdicts on five counts of second-degree rape, Redwolf Pope, who has publicly talked about his experience as an activist, was also found guilty of four counts of first-degree ...

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 ...