POLITICAL REPRESENTATION HAS BEEN A STAPLE of the California prison system for more than 40 years. Like citizens in the free world, residents of prison communities elect representatives from among ...

An inmate in a Solano County state prison is suspected of killing another incarcerated man, the California Department of ...

Two women made allegations of sexual abuse, including being forced to engage in oral sex, groping and offers of clean water ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood in December. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) A federal ...

A current inmate talked with Vivien Leigh about starting a website that sells First Nation items once she is released. Opinion: The American empire has entered its final act Ohio police search for ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...

The Women’s Justice Institute on Thursday announced the launch of a new women-focused Community Reentry Support Center, ...

LOS ANGELES — A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped ...

A newly released report of incarcerated women at the all-female Estrella Jail in Phoenix found high levels of trauma.

It’s a big moment at the Malibu Conservation Camp! CDCR, in partnership with Gordon Philanthropies, celebrated the grand ...