Some employees at a federal prison in Bryan, Texas, which holds high-profile women including Ghislaine Maxwell, said they ...

A female prison guard was spared jail after admitting to a six-month affair with a prisoner at a south west jail. Cherrie-Ann Austin-Saddington, who worked as a guard at HMP The Verne in Dorset, had ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.

Inside Lang’ata Women’s Prison, a corner of the facility hums with an unusual energy. Women cluster in small groups, hands twisting hair, brushes sweeping across faces, teaching one another new ...

Remarkable women are reshaping the future of rehabilitation, leadership, and public protection behind prison walls ...

A new report from the UC Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners argues that the ...

At the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor, dozens of women are working to reshape their futures one ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...