A private equity executive turned his Manhattan apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence," prosecutors ...

Faust is best remembered as the founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. But there was much more to her than just that.

Legislators advance bills for a new prison and to help closed sawmills, but the debates include property taxes.

Baltimore filmmaker John Waters (voluntarily) spent the night in jail with four winners of an auction to raise money for the ...

Junmyung Lee, a 32-year-old Korean man residing in Dedham, was sentenced to one year in prison, to be followed by one year of ...

said what happened to the women and to Garcia, the man deported from Maryland, shows that the government is making mistakes when it chooses whom to send to the prison in El Salvador.

North Dakota state and corrections officials broke ground April 2 for a new women's prison in Mandan that aims to replace an aging facility south of Dickinson and address inmate care concerns.

A New Jersey man has been sentenced to federal prison for targeting women he met online, physically attacking and threatening them in a violent pattern of abuse. Herman Brightman was indicted in ...

A new program at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center — the first of its kind — is preparing women for success beyond incarceration. Fire erupts after plane crash near Boca Raton Airport ...

Maine’s Department of Corrections has had all nonessential funding pulled after it allowed a man who identifies as a woman into a female prison. According to Fox News, U.S. Attorney General Pam ...

KARACHI: The Sindh government intends to build special hostels to provide secure accommodation facilities to former female prison inmates to help their drive to gain economic independence in their ...

An overhead view of the women's prison in Joliette, Que., on June 1, 2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz Al Ballouz transitioned while in custody, and after being convicted asked to be ...