Prison bosses should remove trans women from female jails in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling, a former prison governor has said. Rhona Hotchkiss made the call after judges unanimously ...

As the city of Indianapolis takes steps to redevelop the long-vacant Indiana Women's Prison property, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

Women make up about 10% of Singapore’s prison population. And inside the walls of Institution A4, at the Changi Prison Complex, are about 800 female inmates, incarcerated for various offences.

A women's prison in the UK saw a spike in violence at the same time tofu was taken off the menu. HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire saw an 'increase' in assaults on staff, fights and bullying ...

A Hong Kong government lawyer has urged a court to dismiss an activist’s judicial challenge against a prison rule barring women inmates from wearing shorts in summer, saying individual ...

Australia's adult female prison population has increased by almost a third over the past decade. Advocates say there is a lack of gender-specific support to help women as they transition back into ...

A former female inmate forced to live with a man in prison commended the Trump administration this week for pulling funding from the Maine Department of Corrections for allowing a man convicted of ...