The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the transfer of three incarcerated transgender women to men’s prisons after a Trump ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration says it's recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Six women along with the California Coalition of Women Prisoners have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a prison gynecologist, and ...

Seven women filed for re-sentencing under the Oklahoma Survivors Act, a new law that considers domestic violence evidence.

Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, on Tuesday visited a women's prison to meet ex-offenders and those still serving, as ...

A doctor at a California women's prison has been accused of carrying out 'sadistic' sexual abuse against six inmates - the twisted allegations including forceful penetration and permanent ...

State officials are looking to build a new facility but some believe prison’s are not the answer. Protesters pleading with ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels last week captured regional capital Goma in an anarchic and mineral-rich part of Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of women inmates in Munzenze prison of Congo's Goma ...

A former state prison employee has been sentenced to 90 days in prison after pleading guilty to sexual contact with an inmate. The 36-year-old woman, a former employee of the Mike Durfee State ...