RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Work is underway to build a new state prison for women to replace the dilapidated Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. (Courtesy of the Department of Corrections) New Jersey ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos CEO, has asked President Donald Trump for an early release from prison after being convicted of defrauding investors, according to a request filed last year ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature. By Liz Krieger The plastic ...

A proposed state law offers non-violent offenders the chance to change ‘their lives, support their families and pay restitution to those they’ve harmed.’ ...

In a bid to improve end-of-life care for incarcerated individuals in the California prison system, UC San Francisco researchers have found a way to predict who is most likely to die within two years ...

CNN visits Al-Roj camp, a detention center in northeastern Syria where more than 2,000 women and children (though some are no longer children) have been held – some for more than a decade – by the ...

An advocate for reform in women’s prisons is calling for an overhaul of federal law following a recent report highlighting serious allegations of harassment and sexual assault at a Massachusetts women ...

The New Jersey native — birth name William Junior Maxwell II — was released from a Minnesota prison on Thursday, 11 months ahead of expected, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 34 year-old artist is ...

A Florida man who had been incarcerated at Lancaster County Prison died Friday after reporting difficulty breathing to prison staff, according to a press release sent by prison officials Monday. John ...