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 ...

More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit seeking to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special ...

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for women with special needs, following claims of sexual ...

In four separate cases, women who worked in English prisons have appeared in court on charges of misconduct at work. A ...

In the last five years, three former prison guards at the Wyoming Women’s Center in Lusk have been convicted of sexually assaulting female inmates. One of those women is now suing in federal court, ...

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 ...

Former Florida Women's Reception Center corrections officer Adrian Hernandez was arrested for allegedly battering an inmate. Hernandez faces charges of malicious battery on an inmate and falsifying a ...

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused of sexually assaulting his female cellmate in a women’s prison. Christopher ...

Betty Smithey spent 49 years in Arizona prison for killing a baby in 1963. August 14, 2012— -- For the past 49 years, Betty Smithey has woken up in a prison cell, the nation's longest serving ...

In separate incidents, two women have been accused of illegally conveying drugs of abuse to Ross Correctional Institution ...