The new lawsuit, alleging Maine Correctional Center officers stayed in a pregnant woman's hospital room while she gave birth, is similar to a case against the Cumberland County Jail that was recently ...

Democratic opponents on Tuesday called the bill “unconstitutional,” the result of “witch hunt” and “fear-mongering” against transgender people.

With the Trump administration threatening to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants, the need for space to detain them ...

Dever said passing the bill this session is important so the DOCR can plan and have the program ready to go when the new women's prison opens. “We are building a prison right now for women to ...

Columbia plays the Harvard Crimson after Cecelia Collins scored 20 points in Columbia's 89-37 win over the Dartmouth Big Green.

A woman suspected of killing three members of the same family by poisoning a Christmas cake has been found dead in her prison cell in Brazil. Deise Moura dos Anjos was found without vital signs during ...

The civil suit was launched after Ivan Henry was awarded $8M for wrongful conviction and spent 27 years in prison.

Five women who were raped in their Vancouver homes in the early 1980s all believed it was the same perpetrator, a man named ...

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a trifecta of bills aimed at transgender people's use of public restrooms and their ...

The man convicted in the killing of a Connecticut State Police trooper in the early 1990s will be eligible for an early release during a parole hearing this week.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United ...

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...