Inmate Cierra Janay Jackson, 26, was identified as the suspect that started the fire, ADOC officials said. She was taken to ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” ...

Former Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington) proposed closing the facility last December. His budget office said the closure of the ...

Alabama’s prison system has been in the federal crosshairs for years, and as the latest lawsuit from the Department of ...

Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, around the time of ...

said what happened to the women and to Garcia, the man deported from Maryland, shows that the government is making mistakes when it chooses whom to send to the prison in El Salvador.

The founder of a Bay Area artificial intelligence startup company was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for scamming investors of millions of dollars, officials said. Shaukat Shamim, the 53-year ...

"So, they were letting him be housed in a female prison? No longer. We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout ...

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 video of the incident went viral on social media showing a group of people attacking the women, one of whom had a baby in her arms, prompting outrage online. A viral video showed a group of ...