Two Montana communities have expressed substantial interest in becoming the location for a new state women’s prison facility ...

The FreeHer Institute, a research and policy division of The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, is proud to announce the release of Work to Be Done: Women's ...

Maxwell, a convicted sex offender connected to Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to a less restrictive federal prison this summer.

State prosecutors alleged the former corrections officer engaged in multiple sexual acts with several prisoners while working ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...

It is the women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Saline where inmates and former inmates are alleging some pretty serious health hazards inside, behind all that barbed wire. Trump panics over a ...

BOISE, Idaho — In a small courthouse in southeast Idaho, a woman incarcerated at the nearby prison had just finished testifying that a male guard came into the bathroom on her cellblock and kissed her ...

A female inmate was found dead in a jail cell this month, the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office said Thursday. Deputy Coroner Al Lonzo said Amber Knepshield, 32, was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m.

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...