When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

The Idaho Department of Correction requested a nearly $2 million one-time expense to add new technology, equipment and staff ...

An undocumented woman living in Oklahoma said she is terrified as each new deportation development rolls out under President Donald Trump. Vero has lived in Oklahoma for three decades. She said her ...

As the Northern Territory's prison crisis deepens, two women in custody have spoken out about the harsh conditions inside the Alice Springs watchhouse. Their accounts have sparked renewed calls for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced Wednesday to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt — crimes his lawyer said he ...

A.D. Lewis, an attorney at the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit law firm that focuses on constitutional protections for trans people, estimates there are fewer than 10 trans women in federal women’s ...

By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring transgender women from being housed in female federal prisons. The order also halts any medical treatments related to gender transition ...

JOHANNESBURG - Some prisons have more foreign prisoners than locals as cells burst at the seams. More than 22,000 foreign nationals occupy South African prisons, with 690 of those serving life ...

Idaho women serve an average of 22 months for drug possession—almost double the national average of 13 months. The report also reveals that more than 60% of incarcerated women return to prison ...