Patients at Carswell medical prison in Fort Worth describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their ...

INDIANAPOLIS — When the Indiana Women’s Prison opened at the intersection of New York, Randolph and Michigan streets in 1873, it sat south of Indianapolis’ first “suburb”: Woodruff Place. It was ...

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether. After utilizing a doula while ...

About 338 of every 100,000 women are behind bars in the state. Officials say the new facility could finally curb the nation’s ...

A few weeks ago, Cary Kimble stumbled upon an unusual envelope while opening mail at the international-medical charity where he works as director of development. The envelope contained no letter — ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, a $160 million facility in St. Gabriel, is now open after three years of construction. State officials, ...

About two dozen former FCI Dublin employees got eviction notices to leave their mobile homes by Labor Day. FCI Dublin is closed and the Bureau of Prisons owns the land the mobile home parks are on.

Women who were allegedly recorded during strip searches by prison guards' body cameras told Newsweek in exclusive interviews that the mental and emotional aftermath has led to fear, anger and the ...