If a woman is pregnant at the time she is sentenced to incarceration, the bill mandates that the court include a term of ...

The Mississippi House has passed a bill that would direct the state Department of Health to conduct a sweeping review of the medical care provided to prison inmates.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday ...

Section four of the executive order, “Privacy in Intimate Spaces,” applies this understanding of sex to the housing of ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

The Board of Corrections also approved a lease for a ‘Women’s health unit' and expressed concerns about a delay regarding a ...

A Riverton woman was sentenced to between three and five years in prison Tuesday for shooting off part of her boyfriend's toe ...

An incarcerated trans woman who underwent top and bottom surgeries was forced into a men’s facility, according to the latest ...

The ACLU and federal court monitors continue to step in to implement systemic healthcare reform at Arizona state prisons. Meanwhile, a pregnant inmate at the Perryville complex describes her ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

The Brazilian woman accused of killing three relatives with a poisoned Christmas cake has been found dead in her jail cell.

A federal appeals court has upheld singer R. Kelly's racketeering convictions and a 30-year prison sentence, finding he ...