Less than twenty minutes down the road from Wellesley College’s campus sits MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women’s prison in the United States. Established in 1877, its walls have witnessed over ...

Women at the California Institution for Women reported sexually abusive and “sadistic” behavior during gynecology exams ...

THE global female prison population is growing at a faster rate than that of men. While women still represent a smaller percentage of the total prison population in most countries, at the global ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...

A federal judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a request to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and ...

Trans people face a heightened risk of violence when confined in prison facilities that don’t align with their gender.

A lack of “basic care” for women in prisons causes such distress that some inmates resort to harming themselves, inspectors have warned amid rising levels of self-harm in jails. Inspectors have ...

The number of people dying by suicide inside North Carolina state prisons is raising alarms. Three men died in January, a loss of life that ties the record for suicides inside state prisons in a ...

By Shaila Dewan A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates ...