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 ...

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

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

mothers and their babies are housed in single room accommodation. " He said the new women's prison in Limerick "offers state-of-the-art" facilities to care for pregnant prisoners and provides several ...

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

An inmate at a federal prison in Sumter County has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, claiming one of the president's executive orders has allowed "transgender women prisoners in men's ...

Already, seven prison staffers have either been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty to a slew of charges. An eighth is ...

Israel’s airstrike, writes Siamak Namazi, who was held hostage for eight years in the same prison, “did not distinguish between evil magistrates and political prisoners.” ...

I saw 16 prison employees in body bags being loaded into ambulances,” one witness inside the prison recounted.

They are under 24-hour supervision with high staff–inmate ratios, while the cells are built with poured, reinforced concrete to prevent self-harm. Tom Wheatley, the head of the Prison Governors’ ...