A Hong Kong government lawyer has urged a court to dismiss an activist’s judicial challenge against a prison rule barring women inmates from wearing shorts in summer, saying individual ...

In a NewsNation special investigation, five women who were formerly incarcerated in California tell their story of surviving a federal prison so notorious for sexual abuse it was called "The Rape Club ...

One woman who is engaged to an Iowa inmate, who requested anonymity, said she and her partner have been trying to get married ...

Former Ohio inmates and equality advocates are pushing for a bill that would require correctional institutions to provide ...

THEY were monsters who committed unspeakable crimes – murderers, rapists, and serial killers whose names became synonymous ...

AP Photo/Michael Hill Authorities in New York State have charged 10 prison guards in connection with the fatal beating of a 22-year-old inmate in March. Messiah Nantwi, 22, died on March 1 from ...

A "dangerous" inmate has had his sentence extended after stabbing a prison officer with a pen and throwing faeces over another. Jason Jones was already serving a life sentence for attacking three ...

As a 32-year-old mother of two young children, Angel and Chip, Henderson was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. She spent 36 years behind bars until a governor’s pardon set ...

To save $3.5 million in Connecticut’s state budget, Gov. Lamont proposed nixing free online communications, launched in 2021.

Kenner was there speaking to inmates about the Bard Prison Initiative—a program he had conceived and created while still an undergraduate at Bard, the forward-thinking college in Annandale-on ...

They tell NewsNation they were assaulted by officers who worked there, and when they tried to report the abuse, they were silenced ...