Four inmates were taken to the hospital Sunday morning after a group of prisoners at Perryville Prison began experiencing ...

Women who were allegedly recorded during strip searches by prison guards' body cameras told Newsweek in exclusive interviews that the mental and emotional aftermath has led to fear, anger and the ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

DENVER — Three people were taken to the hospital after a fire at a correctional facility in Denver. According to the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC), there was an incident at the Denver Women ...

A transgender women took her own life in the segregation unit of a male prison after being denied a move to a female ...

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 ...

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday. Wilson, 34, is ...

A female prison guard had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with 900 messages to keep the relationship going, a court in the UK has heard. Megann Gibson, 26, also allowed the unidentified ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women ...

A female prison officer who “proper fell in love” with an inmate has been jailed. Morgan Farr Varney, 24, was caught entering a cupboard with the male prisoner at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster, a court ...

Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect that this is not the first women’s prison in the state of North Dakota. MANDAN, ND (KXNET) — Construction is moving full speed ahead on the Heart ...