Survivors of abuse at a shuttered federal prison known as “the rape club” are teaming up with local activists to keep ICE out ...

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest held on Friday in a Rio de Janeiro prison, during an event designed to ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Credit: Deedeebee, Wikimedia Creative Commons An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public ...

Psychological aspects of life behind bars, particularly as far as femmes are concerned, get a generous probing in Women's Prison [from a screen story by Jack DeWitt]. Villain of the piece is Amelia ...