Women’s rights have effectively been eliminated in women’s prisons because of transgender inmates, according to a former female prisoner. On Friday, the Independent Women’s Forum released the first ...

Lashanda Gregory was sent to a Delaware prison as she was seeking the right to sue Connecticut on claims she was sexually ...

A female prison officer who “proper fell in love” with an inmate has been jailed. Morgan Farr Varney, 24, was caught entering a cupboard with the male prisoner at HMP Lindholme in Doncaster, a court ...

Israel’s prison system is under scrutiny after local media reported a female prison guard had a sexual relationship with a convicted terrorist, but her lawyer says his client is the victim and faced ...

Male inmates at an all-female prison in Fort Worth, Texas, are temporarily restricted from entering or using female-only private areas, a judge decided this week. It is the first time a federal court ...

The first flashpoints to erupt in the gender wars have involved activists awakening a sleeping giant — millions of parents across the political spectrum. Mostly thanks to outraged parents, the ...

A woman who spent 40 years behind bars for her husband’s 1984 murder has been released from prison just in time to spend Christmas with her family. Patty Prewitt, the longest-serving female prisoner ...

Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...

A woman held in prison in Iran for the past six months for writing anti-government slogans died Thursday after falling into a coma, rights groups said, accusing authorities of neglect. Somayeh Rashidi ...