For 80 years, women-in-prison (or WIP) movies have been a suppurating subgenre of the usually all-male prison melodrama. Sometimes ennobling, often lurid, they depict women as fighters, lovers and ...

The in-fighting between the ladies gets sidelined when a tough cop brings a foursome of fearsome male convicts to the prison. Don’t ask why men are being held at a women’s prison.

A 5-minute documentary shows the violent January night at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women that led to charges against 10 officers.

As many as 1,600 trained inmates have fought California's recent wildfires, the latest chapter in a long history of prison labor.