Carmen Mejia was cleared of murder in connection with the death of a baby in her care, who was scalded by hot water in 2003 in Austin, Texas. Federal officials said she will be allowed to stay in the ...

Two women in Texas have been arrested after they allegedly disguised drones to look like birds and attempted to fly ...

States are building new women's prisons as addiction, tougher sentencing and high recidivism drive rising incarceration.

A woman who was an inmate at a South Carolina Department of Corrections prison will spend more time behind bars, according to ...

The Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project, FIPPP, works with people who’ve survived jails and prison to share their experiences live on stage-with first hand accounts of mass ...

Federal protections against detention and deportation for sexual abuse survivors have deteriorated under Trump.

A Missouri woman was sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison after she pleaded guilty to a successful murder-for-hire plot that targeted her fiancé in 2011, prosecutors said. More than 14 ...

House Bill 29, which takes effect later in March, requires Ohio correctional facilities to provide incarcerated women with free menstrual products.

This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility ...