The nursery program at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri, offers moms the opportunity to bond with and care for their babies.

The ruling reversed a district court decision dismissing claims made by a transgender woman for over her treatment during pre ...

The Ombudsman received a complaint from a woman who was denied visitation with a friend by an area correctional institution. She has visited her friend several times in the past but was taken off ...

Women’s prisons have ‘astonishing gaps in basic decency’ and an ‘overreliance’ on physical force according to new research which examined conditions in four jails. Self-harm among women in prison has ...

A federal judge’s ruling has temporarily prevented the transfer of three transgender women from women’s facilities to men’s prisons ... gender identity and correctional facility placement ...

Washington – A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to ...

Female prisons have a self-harm rate 8.5 times higher than male jails, as women experience a lack of "basic care" - including a "bizarre rule" that bans them from putting dirty underwear in ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any ... a low-security men's institution in a Dallas suburb. "In here, we do not exist ...

By Shaila Dewan A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates ...