Problems with overcrowding have enveloped the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis for nearly two years, ...

Lawmakers in California have killed a proposed measure aimed at addressing safety concerns in women's prisons stemming from a ...

Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education investigate university-run prison health care ...

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled.

Zambia in southern Africa has some of the highest rates of reported gender-based violence in the world. Karen Creed and ...

Wielding golden shovels against a bare patch of dirt inside the fence at Montana State Prison, state officials broke ground ...

While I have a writing career to push back on the show’s nasty narrative, so many other incarcerated people have no recourse ...

Here’s a look at genocide, the attempted or intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group, whether in wartime or peace. Facts The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

Despite their "unique needs, criminal justice policy has largely overlooked incarcerated women, partly because they are significantly outnumbered by men in the prison system," say Heather Rice ...

A new poll by NBC News, published April 27, found the partisan divide between men and women ages 18 to 29 is wider than any other age range surveyed. Fifty-three percent of Gen Z women said they ...

Mary Howden, coordinator of the Women’s Rights Network Scotland, called for the “immediate removal of male prisoners from the female estate”. She added: “The Scottish Government and Scottish Prison ...

LONDON (AP) — Three men who plotted to kill a former cage fighter ... were sentenced Friday to a collective term of over a century in prison. Daniel Kelly, 46, and brothers Louis Ahearne ...