More than 100 female prisoners have been transferred from a Venezuelan detention centre after inmates took over the facility ...

A Washington female inmate is suing corrections officials, alleging a male-born prisoner attacked her under the state's gender-identity housing policy.

A female prison warden has been charged with raping an inmate holed up inside a men’s jail. Johnesha Rucker, 28, was nabbed ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – Two prisoners in the state’s only prison for women died within four days of each other spurring a call ...

Marine Rousseau, 41, is accused of leaving her two sons to fend for themselves in the woods after allegedly leaving them ...

The Justice Department is investigating Washington state prisons over allegations that female inmates are unsafe with ...

Khaira Howard and Rebecca Fackler died within four days of each other at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.

A human rights group says Japan's penal system still fails to treat prison inmates 'like human beings' Seated in a wheelchair ...

Having spent over 20 years battling addiction and repeated prison stints, Ms Sabrina Chong Abdullah now channels those experiences into helping female inmates and ex-offenders recover and reintegrate.