Known as the Wanini Kireri Magereza Hospital, the facility is expected to serve prison officers, more than 60,000 inmates, as well as members of the public living around the area.

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 ...

Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark ...

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

Nathan Chasing Horse will be sentenced for sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls, drawing to a close a case that sent shock waves through Indian Country.

An inmate has claimed he heard guards discussing a cover-up after Jeffrey Epstein's dead body was found behind bars.

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 ...

Two women have died by suicide and a third from cancer at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the reporting found.

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

We are continuing our conversation with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International. On Sunday, tens of thousands of women around the world marked International Women’s Day by ...

March 8, International Women’s Day, is marked worldwide as a day to recognize women’s struggles for justice and equality. In ...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana in Texas, the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, at a rate of nearly one a ...