A former Webb County corrections officer was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting two women in his ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

The number of women in Indian prisons has surged by 162% in two decades, outpacing general population growth. This rise, ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over. She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she had just done. Encouraged by a former Idaho Department ...

LONDON, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars for petty crimes and the ...

A group of female inmates in San Francisco claims sheriff’s deputies filmed them during a mass jail strip-search with male officers watching and cracking jokes. Nearly 20 women have accused San ...

A woman accused of harassing a mayor, obstructing police and extorting a woman in Arizona, was sentenced this week to prison ...

A Norfolk woman who stole from two businesses at the Sunset Plaza Mall in August will spend the next five months incarcerated ...

Employed to manage the books at GirlsDoPorn, Valorie Moser provided a friendly face to young women who were later coerced into acting in pornography videos.