The Al Hol detention facility, a dusty and overcrowded complex ringed by barbed-wire fencing, sits about 20 miles east of Al ...

A South Carolina bill that would allow judges to sentence women who get abortions to decades in prison and could restrict the ...

Releasing the files on the convicted sex offender brings these women a step closer to a modicum of accountability.

In response to the coverage of the letters, Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus, lashed out in a statement, “That’s tabloid ...

DOJ says two Texas men plotted to kill all adult men on a Haitian island and enslave women and children. Indicted on Nov. 20.

As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean ...

Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro was taken from house arrest into detention on Saturday after the Supreme Court ...

A dog walker's chance find in 2009 revealed a mass grave of 11 women and in unborn child on Albuquerque's West Mesa. Police ...

There is a "clear commitment to improvement and innovation" at Europe's largest women's prison despite ongoing challenges, an inspection has found. An unannounced visit to HMP Bronzefield in Surrey in ...

A female prison officer engaged in a sex act with a convicted robber in a prison prayer room while two other inmates acted as lookouts, a court heard. Isabelle Dale, 23, is accused of the encounter ...

Israel is holding 49 Palestinian women, including two minors and one detainee from Gaza, who are facing systematic abuse in prisons and interrogation centres, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) ...

Gov. Phil Murphy and other officials broke ground this week on a new women’s prison in Burlington County that will replace Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, the state’s only women’s prison. The new ...