Shimere Shanklin, a formerly incarcerated woman, is opening a home in Rockford to provide stable housing and resources to other women reentering society after prison.

Officials said in a Thursday release that the 38-year-old woman had already been booked into the Lancaster County jail.

The 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury conducted an investigation into the living conditions for female inmates in local ...

Culley, the pregnant British teenager accused of being a drug mule, awaits her fate behind the bars of a notorious prison far ...

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused ...

The Myanmar junta continues to use imprisonment not as a tool of justice, but as an instrument of repression, while ASEAN ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

Prisoners at Glasgow's newest custody centre for women have had their food budget cut by 25%. Glasgow’s new women’s jail has ...

Addiction, poverty, and trauma are driving women into prison for minor thefts, while overcrowded jails hinder real ...

Accounts from inside Tehran's Evin Prison are as harrowing as they are rare — many of those locked up inside never make it ...

A Justice Department investigation continues into a California women’s prison that came to be called the “rape club,” in ...