Patients at Carswell medical prison in Texas describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

Inmates at a recently closed, scandal-plagued Bay Area women’s prison dubbed “the rape club” have reached a historic settlement that will increase oversight and protections for about 500 inmates ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

Nearly 100 years ago on Nov. 24, 1928, the first federal prison for women in the country, the Federal Industrial Institution, opened in Alderson, West Virginia.

In a staggering settlement, the federal government will pay $116 million to more than 100 women who said they were sexually abused by employees at a now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin, Calif., ...

Women who allege they were raped in a California prison by a biological male claiming to be transgender will be compelled to refer to the defendant using she/her pronouns, a Madera County judge ruled ...

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, a time dedicated to amplifying the voices of survivors and advocating justice. The goal should be not just awareness, but, wherever possible, ...

FIRST ON FOX — A new study is sounding the alarm on female-identifying, biologically male felons being incarcerated at female-only prisons, saying those inmates pose physical and psychological risks ...

In a staggering settlement, the federal government will pay $116 million to more than 100 women who said they were sexually abused by employees at a now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin, Calif., ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...