Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 ...

HABERSHAM COUNTY, Ga. — Months after giving birth, guards found a woman dead inside a state prison cell in northeast Georgia. Now, the circumstances surrounding Sheqweetta Vaughan's death have ...

Overcrowding and poor healthcare contributed to a 50 per cent increase in prison deaths last year, according to a damning ...

Almost four out of 10 inmates surveyed by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons said it is easy to access drugs. Some prisons ...

The number of women in Tasmanian prisons has dramatically risen by 43 per cent in just two years, with female inmates said to be suffering amid population pressures.

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat across California, the state’s prison officials plan to embark ...

Three more women have claimed they were victims of South Australia’s most notorious transgender prisoner, a female advocacy ...

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused of sexually assaulting his female cellmate in a women’s prison. Christopher ...

Chief Inspector Mark Kelly said that Ireland’s prison system is broken, and intervention is now needed at the highest ...

As the genre has boomed on cable, the incarcerated have found themselves watching more and more of it. By John J. Lennon John J. Lennon filed this story from Sing Sing Correctional Facility in ...