More women have been banned from prison visits after body scanners mistakenly identified medical devices as contraband.Mary Kay Hargather demonstrated at her home in Webster how she was asked to turn ...

News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

A volunteer said it was "quite monumental going from prison to Parliament" after speaking about her experience in the ...

A Westchester County woman who killed her young son during a bitter custody dispute has been found dead in her prison cell, ...

Dr Amanda Brown spent 19 years as a GP in Britain's toughest prisons including Wormwood Scrubs and Bronzefield, treating notorious criminals and witnessing extreme violence behind bars ...

Momentum is finally building to address longstanding and systemic problems at Michigan’s only women’s prison as state lawmakers, local elected officials, and activists demand answers about mold, ...

Months after a woman in state custody died from a treatable infection, Michigan lawmakers from both parties raised concerns over what they described as systemic failures at the Huron Valley ...

Lansing — Mold is a persistent problem inside Michigan's only prison for women, and employees made bets over whether inmates there would commit suicide, according to testimony presented Tuesday to the ...

Testimony in Lansing described mold, wheelchair shortages and alleged mistreatment at Huron Valley women’s prison.

A Vietnamese court has sentenced ten women involved in a cross-border commercial surrogacy network that transported women ...

In at least 20 of the 29 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

Solitary confinement is being challenged across the US due to its harmful effects on incarcerated individuals and its failure to improve prison safety, with studies and legal cases showing that it can ...