A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...

Two more former correctional officers at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Dublin have been charged with sexually ...

As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...

No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to holding immigrants for deportation.

Two death row inmates were executed by a pair of southern states for their twisted murders minutes apart Tuesday evening. Anthony Wainwright was put to death in Florida and Gregory Hunt was killed ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) may not enforce parts of a sweeping executive order President Trump signed on his first day back in office instructing it to cease treatment for transgender inmates ...

Part memoir, part exposé, part cookbook, “The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club” reveals the hidden lives of women dissidents in the Islamic Republic.

Following the hit series Inside Maximum Security, CNA’s Inside The Women’s Prison offers a raw look at how Singapore’s female inmates cope with life behind bars, their struggle to stay ...

A former federal correctional officer was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing women inmates in California — the latest case to focus on sex abuse in the nation’s ...

Correctional staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted a group of incarcerated women with pepper spray and rubber bullets to retaliate after inmates filed sexual abuse claims, a ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A woman serving a life sentence for her role in a notorious Walker County kidnapping case has escaped from a work release program in the Birm ...

As of Feb. 20, the Bureau of Prisons had 2,198 transgender inmates in prisons and halfway houses, including 1,488 people identified as male at birth who now identify as female, and 710 people ...