That sustained growth has researchers, former inmates and prison reform advocates calling for women’s facilities that do more than replicate a system designed for men.

Michigan needs to do better by ensuring its correctional facilities, especially WHVCF, are up to code. Raising concerns that ...

WASHINGTON — Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, inmates say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and the warden, and were ...

A 37-year-old woman who walked away from a San Diego County Female Community Reentry Program was apprehended Friday in Perris ...

More Recently, on Reddit, a former inmate invited other users to ask her anything about her experience, and it led to a very eye-opening conversation. She opened the conversation by writing ...

Wealstun Prison guard Megann Gibson, 26, had phone sex with an inmate and flooded his mom with hundreds of messages to keep the illicit tryst going, a UK court has heard.

A survey found 47% of female officers had an inmate expose themselves to them. The federal Bureau of Prisons "has not been able to identify the prevalence and scope of inmate-on-staff sexual ...

There are more than 90 cameras mounted throughout New Jersey's only women's prison, but the sex assault trial of an officer accused of abusing five inmates will hinge on what happened in the ...

It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

Why Female Prison Employees May Risk Having Sexual Relationships With Inmates One former female corrections officer is providing an insider perspective.

New Jersey’s only women’s prison will close, Gov. Phil Murphy announced this week, following the release of a scathing independent report that detailed allegations of abuse against inmates.

Andrea James knows firsthand just how challenging it is to be an incarcerated woman. In 2009, James, then a mother of a 5-month-old child, was sentenced to 24 months in Danbury Federal Prison for ...