Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Two Birmingham-area women are under arrest by state prison officials on drug charges. A search warrant at a Hoover home on Wednesday turned up 4 pounds of flakka and a flakka manufacturing lab. Later ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

The bill would codify protections adopted since sexual misconduct drove the feds to declare oversight of NJ's women's prison ...

Most of the recent lawsuits against Blair County and its prison have focused on the living conditions endured by the inmates, but this week, two female visitors complained in a federal civil rights ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...