A RECORD number of female prison officers were sacked last year for having affairs with male inmates. A total of 18 were ...

The department's own numbers show it has fewer wheelchairs than the number of inmates with prescriptions for them, says ...

Four female inmates from a Goodyear prison were hospitalized Sunday morning after suffering seizures. The exact cause of the seizures was from illicit drug use, according to the ADCRR. An additional ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. “For years, officials have used ‘because PREA’ as ...

Forty-nine women inmates at a Pennsylvania prison suffered carbon monoxide poisoning believed to have come from a malfunctioning heating system, authorities said Thursday. The women became sick around ...

South Carolina judges could allow a pregnant woman convicted of a crime to stay in her home until and after the baby is born under proposed legislation making its way through the ...

Amanda Joy Cooper, born a man, has been deemed a dangerous offender since 2001 for sex offences against several women ...

For Women Scotland objects to use of individual risk assessments, saying it is contrary to supreme court ruling ...

Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on the outskirts of a Surrey town. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 and could hold up to 780 inmates. Until then, prisoners would ...