Today in History for Feb. 10: ...

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 ...

Two frustrated women’s advocacy groups have launched a billboard truck campaign across California, demanding attention to concerning rise in trans prisoners raping women. The campaign, organized by ...

The Women’s Justice Institute on Thursday announced the launch of a new women-focused Community Reentry Support Center, backed by a $375,000 grant from the Department of Family and Support Services.

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

A former prison governor warned there were “no women’s prisons in Scotland” due to a policy which will be subject to a judicial review next month. Rhona Hotchkiss, a former governor of now-closed HMP ...

The families of two women from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation who died in jail have filed separate ...