As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is putting a ...

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As federal lawsuits challenge President Trump's executive order impacting trans inmates, the Bureau of Prisons is starting to roll out new policies demanding trans women hand over female-identifying ...

Mitchel James Thompson, 43, is charged with two counts of sexual contact with a child under the age of 16, according to a ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy ...

Inmates at HMP Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire are being allowed to spend £330 on new clothes as a birthday treat in a bid to ...

Grey walls, grey furniture and grey jumpsuits affect the psychology of prisoners. Research suggests simple, colourful ...

Female prisons have a self-harm rate 8.5 times higher than male jails, as women experience a lack of "basic care" - including a "bizarre rule" that bans them from putting dirty underwear in washing ...

President Trump signed a series of executive actions that would limit transgender and nonbinary people's rights by focusing ...

At the end of Netflix’s ‘Prison Cell 211,‘ Juan Olivera’s slow descent into hell culminates in a pivotal decision made by the character, one with irreversible consequences for him. The show captures ...

At the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, Calif., incarcerated women organize and run a Goodwill store, where women ...