Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

Cumberland County officials announced on Monday afternoon that Melissa Marie Trayer, who was arrested on Dec. 26, died on ...

A former Webb County corrections officer was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting two women in his ...

LONDON, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of women in jail globally has soared by 17% in a decade, despite leaders' pledges to put fewer women behind bars for petty crimes and the ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

A woman accused of harassing a mayor, obstructing police and extorting a woman in Arizona, was sentenced this week to prison ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) — In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over. She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she had just done. Encouraged by a former Idaho Department ...