Some transgender criminals should be imprisoned in women’s jails, Reform UK’s new justice adviser said. Vanessa Frake, a ...

The U.S. prison system is designed for men and is, thus, less responsive to the needs of women, and even less so for mothers.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a Florida prison to a ...

Founded in 1873, the 401 N. Randolph St. property was the nation's first women's prison and housed inmates until 2009.

An inmate at Wisconsin's women's prison will spend the rest of her life behind bars for allegedly beating her cellmate to death ...