WILLIAMSPORT — The state Department of Corrections and the superintendent of the Muncy prison are accused in a federal civil suit of ignoring the mental health needs of a female inmate from Schuylkill ...

Records: Two inmates were charged Jan. 6 after another was sexually assaulted at the Davidson County Correctional Development ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

From left, Father Timothy Sauppe, village trustees Mary Ann Hughes and Gary Delhaye, and Roseann Viktora at the Westville Depot and Historical Museum. Veterans Memorial at Zamberletti Park in ...

The entire Mitchellville Police Department, including the interim chief, resigned by Jan. 1, leaving the city without officers. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is providing law enforcement coverage ...

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December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59 ...

Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women remained held in restrictive housing. “Some of these ladies ...

The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – FCI Dublin – into any kind of detention facility in the future. The ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...