As victim testimonies continue to be collected from Palestinians taken hostage from Gaza, new evidence emerges of mass ...

On Monday, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission announced it is to recognize 17 individuals for their heroic acts.

This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very bes ...

Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

RFE/RL's Belarus Service spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the country's notorious Homel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, the former prisoners ...

Belarusian prisons are thought to hold over 1,100 political prisoners, including 150 women, under harsh conditions. Former inmates describe freezing cells, rotten quality, and forced labor, likening ...

The investigation alleges the DOC failed to properly act to address allegations that prisoners have been subjected to sexual ...

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for women with special needs, following claims of sexual ...

Incarcerated trainers in the Helping PAWS program at Logan Correctional Center raise puppies that will later work as mobility assistance dogs.

New filings in an ongoing lawsuit against officials at the women’s prison in Lusk point to a 2023 federal audit that found surveillance camera blind spots within the facility and ...

Long before the white man arrived with his mirror and his gospel of inferiority, African women were already beautiful. Their skin glowed under the sun’s own spotlight; their hair spoke stories of ...

A number of correctional officers at York Correctional Institution have been accused of sexual misconduct and charged or ...