WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

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 ...

Lansing — Women inside a Michigan prison were subjected to trauma and "institutional betrayal" by a state policy that allowed them to be recorded by guards' body cameras while they underwent strip ...

If women needed gynecological care at an all-female prison in southern California, their only option was to see the sole ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Back in 1984, state lawmakers knew there were problems in the state prison in Sioux Falls. The ruling came as then Gov. Bill Janklow was developing a plan to convert a ...

On March 15, the Trump administration loaded more than 200 men onto three planes bound for El Salvador, where they were to be locked in its notorious CECOT prison. A video of the men being marched, ...

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A male “transgender” inmate who allegedly sexually assaulted his female cellmate had a long history of violent behavior and serious infractions before Washington state correction officials transferred ...

Hilde Tubex receives funding from The Western Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research (WACSAR) Criminal Justice Research Grant. Natalie Gately receives funding from The Western Australian ...

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 ...

“My God, you also handed my son freedom,” said Patricia Cortes when she left El Buen Pastor prison on September 17, 2024. She had hoped to be able to guarantee her son’s food and health upon leaving ...