Hours later, inside the compound, there was a fire - apparently set by male prisoners as they tried to escape. By morning, about 4,000 male inmates had broken out. But few of the women managed to ...

I’ll be thinking of those 3,499 women in England and Wales who will be spending the day in prison. There will be colourful displays in prison libraries with pictures of Marie Curie, Oprah and ...

The prison memo was issued on the same day that a new group of transgender women rushed to court to try to stop their transfer from all-female prisons to all-male facilities, saying that the move ...

Prisons have 22 transgender women in female institutions and one transgender man in a male institution, Stover said in a statement for the lawsuit. Government lawyers argued that Lamberth had no ...