Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News ...

The management of Negros Occidental District Jail-Male Dormitory (NODJ-MD) based in Bago City dismissed the allegation ...

Justice organizations hand-delivered letters to the City Hall offices of elected officials demanding protections for women in ...

Disability Rights Connecticut found that the Connecticut Deptartment of Correction failed to protect women with mental ...

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

A Justice Department memo obtained by Prism says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with ...

Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of female inmates in San Francisco claims sheriff’s deputies filmed them during a mass jail strip-search with male officers watching and cracking jokes. Nearly 20 women have accused San ...

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 ...