A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order separating transgender inmates from female detainees at a Texas correctional facility for women with special needs, following claims of sexual ...

No other place in the world incarcerates women at a higher rate than South Dakota, according to research by a prison-focused nonprofit, and the construction of a second women’s prison in the state ...

In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for ...