Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies. They also face stigma that robs them of familial and community support.

It is a tangled, barely credible tale. And the 68-year-old web designer with a kindly grandmother look at its heart makes for ...

The woman died one day after deputies found her unconscious in a holding cell. She was treated at a nearby hospital before being returned to the jail.

Connecticut's correctional ombudsman is calling for greater scrutiny of staff after contraband was found in a state prison.

Twenty-one years ago, Dorothy Koffel was a tutor for people with learning disabilities when she met Sister Maureen Clark. Sister Maureen founded the Sisters of St. Joseph Prison Ministr ...

Women walk between buildings at the Dilley camp when it was in use during the first Trump administration. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

North Carolina first lady Anna Stein paid a visit to the Western Correctional Center for Women in Black Mountain to observe the Driver License Restoration Progr ...

Beloved former Sports Director Tom Pipines is keeping busy during retirement. Pipines spent the last nine years in Waukesha County Jail – but it’s not what you think.

An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death on the morning he died.

Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

An inmate trustee working at a sheriff's office barbeque fundraiser was caught on video with a woman going into portable ...

Hollywood actor James McAvoy's half-brother, who is currently incarcerated, slashed a fellow inmate in a potentially lethal attack during visiting hours at a well-known Scottish prison, a court has ...