A Tennessee man who was pardoned by President Trump for taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been sentenced to life in ...

Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into CCWF and another women’s prison, California Institution for Women, to determine if CDCR has sufficiently protected female ...

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 ...

They are among around 675 female inmates (as of June 3) of an approximate total prison population of 1,800 at Michigan's only women's prison, Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) ...

In Ohio, Lucasville remains Ohio's longest and deadliest ever prison riot. We revisit the uprising on the 30th anniversary of the 11-day siege.

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, ...

The 640-acre facility is the largest women’s prison in California, and holds more than 2,000 women, nonbinary and transgender people. In total, women make up just 4% of the state's prison ...

U.S. criminal justice policies have led to a 585 percent increase in the incarcerated women’s population since 1980 and have resulted in the highest female incarceration rate in the world.

On Jan. 26, a federal judge in Boston issued a restraining order in a separate challenge to the same executive order. That order was limited to one transgender woman in a women’s prison. Trump ...

New prison rules for trans women on hold, sowing confusion As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a stop to new ...