More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

A fence with barbed wire encircles the water tower across from the state women’s prison in Shakopee. A plain chain-link fence lines the Catholic cemetery. But five years after local ...

Palestinian prisoners embody the resilience of their people, transforming captivity into a site of resistance.

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

like women's razors and hair care, is on hold at at least one federal prison in Texas, according to sources who spoke to NPR ...

Two lawsuits filed in Boston and Washington, D.C., last week challenge President Trump’s executive order targeting “gender ideology,” arguing that it violates the rights and jeopardizes the ...

In one video, Arbel Yehud, 29, one of the last living female hostages ... Finally, around 7 p.m., a chain of buses arrived carrying dozens of Palestinian prisoners, including some who had been ...

I exited the county bus in waist chains and leg irons with just enough ... Fuck. My first day in prison, and I get jumped. How did I get here? It was my first day at San Quentin but it wasn ...

The state government spending cash to allow female prisoners to store poessesions is an outrageous waste of public funds, writes Des Houghton. I think the scheme is an outrageous waste of public ...