As the sheriff pushes to rebuild the Vista jail, the office’s Las Colinas women’s jail has become its primary proof of concept.

Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them.

From meals to showers to visitors, this is what life is like on Florida's death row for convicted killer Wade Wilson.

On a quiet night about 25 years ago, Ann stepped out of a work event in St Michael and into a darkness that would alter the ...

In a nation grappling with questions of justice, redemption, and second chances, Jubilee Generation’s vision is quietly ...

A male former state Corrections officer accused of sexual conduct with inmates at a women's prison in Washtenaw County has been bound over to stand trial on four felony counts. Joshua Lee, 22, of ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Credit: Deedeebee, Wikimedia Creative Commons An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public ...

December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...