If women needed gynecological care at an all-female prison in southern California, their only option was to see the sole ...

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a newly released study from Stanford surveyed women incarcerated for killing their abusers. The head researcher says the findings help ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Speaking to the BBC, Prisons Minister Lord Timpson said there were too many women who were victims of domestic abuse in the system. These women, however, are criminals and some will have little ...

MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts’ only state-run prison for women, is antiquated, inefficient, and inadequate. But Governor Maura Healey’s plans for an expensive rebuild of the facility are butting up ...

A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...