The bare cell, no more than two metres across, had no bed or toilet. Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old ...

Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most ...

The federal government agreed on Tuesday to pay about $116 million to settle lawsuits by 103 women who said they had been ...

Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, said she will never stop ...

Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits ... to take their medicine or attend an upcoming medical appointment. Other times, the work requires ...

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate on temporary medical leave from prison, said in a video call ...

Brigitte Cleroux, who passed herself off as a nurse at B.C. Women’s Hospital and View Royal Surgical Centre, “profoundly ...

With new restrictions on gender-affirming care, prisons confiscate underwear from trans people and compel them to cut their ...

placed Oregon’s women’s prison on probation after a review of its health services. The group blasted Coffee Creek ...

Kentucky’s attorney general says the state is under no legal requirement to use taxpayer money to cover the costs of ...

The Bureau of Prisons on Tuesday agreed to pay $115.8 million to 103 women who alleged they were sexually assaulted at the ...

Female prisoners in a notorious Iranian ... blocked several times after refusing to wear a headscarf to a medical appointment. Prison authorities only gave in after Narges' fellow prisoners ...