I know how a relocation can exacerbate violence,” writes Johanna Mills. “Even when the place you’re leaving is so toxic that you can’t stay there.” ...

Two Bay Area lawyers have been trying to visit the 600 women who are now in federal prisons across the country after the ...

chaplains or other staff in at least two-thirds of all women’s federal prisons over the past decade. But a backlog of thousands of cases has impeded the Bureau of Prison’s ability to hold ...

Those cases prompted a bipartisan Senate investigation two years ago that found prisoners were sexually abused by wardens, guards, chaplains or other staff in at least two-thirds of all women’s ...

chaplains or other staff in at least two-thirds of all women’s federal prisons over the past decade. And just last month, U.S. lawmakers held a hearing to discuss how to better safeguard inmates.

A federal jury convicted Ricco Maye, 42, of 14 charges, including threatening witnesses, drug and sex trafficking. He faces ...

A team of University of Kentucky horticulturalists is working with inmates at a Kentucky prison. Their grant-funded project ...

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit an inmate at Nebraska's only women's prison filed last year over water quality issues ...