The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the ...

Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would reduce sentences for domestic violence survivors if they can tie their crimes to ...

On Pam Stevenson’s drive home from teaching a bible study class at the Ellen Halbert Unit Women’s Prison, a message she ...

Aiming to connect with women before they leave prison, she has set up a pen pal program to link incarcerated women with those ...

Two transgender inmates will be transferred back to a women’s prison after a district court further blocked the Trump administration’s executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to recognize a ...

Separately, in January, a federal judge in Boston halted the transfer of another transgender women’s to a men’s prison. At the time, Rachel and Ellen Doe were not plaintiffs to any lawsuit ...

ALBANY — More than 2,000 correction officers who are being terminated after they declined to report for duty following a statewide prison strike are being prohibited from trying to get their ...

Lauren and Christie are joined this week by Katie, who’s prison pen-pal turned into her boyfriend. Katie never expected to fall in love with someone behind bars—but here she is, engaged to ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison in exchange for unpaid community service. It is considered the first criminal policy with a gender focus in ...

Sentencing Clifford, Justice Joel Bennathan said he was “a jealous man soaked in self-pity — a man who holds women in utter contempt.” Clifford refused to turn up for the sentencing.