Staffers in Washington's only women's prison repeatedly used excessive force, according to a report from the state's Office ...

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...

Many people in prison rely on federal Pell Grants to pay for college courses. But in most states, women's prisons offer less access to Pell-eligible classes than men’s prisons do.

The Prison Policy Initiative estimates that in 2024, about 189,600 women and girls were held in state custody, and 93,000 were held in local jails across the country.

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s ...

A former inmate at a Washington state women’s prison was repeatedly sexually assaulted by her transgender cellmate — who was transferred to the prison after changing her gender identity ...

Founded in 1873, the 401 N. Randolph St. property was the nation's first women's prison and housed inmates until 2009. After the prison moved to its current Girls School Road location, ...

As the Prison Rape Elimination Act states, “males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A former correctional officer at the Indiana Women's Prison was found guilty of abusing his authority to sexually assault and rape inmates while employed with the prison. Gbenga ...

DUBLIN — Federal officials have notified Congress that they intend to permanently close the scandal-plagued FCI Dublin women’s prison, a facility wracked by a reputed “rape club” that led ...

The state has slowly pursued building a new women’s prison, one focused on rehabilitation and reentry, according to officials. That facility is tentatively expected to cost about $70 million, ...

A Stanford study surveyed 650 women incarcerated in California and found that intimate partner violence often led women to long prison sentences for acts of survival.