Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility ...

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

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Trump administration had pulled all nonessential funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections after allowing a 6-foot-1, 245-pound man ...

A number of correctional officers at York Correctional Institution have been accused of sexual misconduct and charged or ...

Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...

Incarcerated trainers in the Helping PAWS program at Logan Correctional Center raise puppies that will later work as mobility assistance dogs.

The family of a woman who died in a Waseca federal prison has filed a lawsuit alleging the facility failed to provide proper medical care for weeks, despite doctors advising she needed emergency heart ...

Mother-baby bonding is crucial to a child’s development and leads to decreased recidivism rates, according to research. But prison nurseries aren't the ideal place to grow up. In Nebraska, the ...