Two women have filed a lawsuit against the Blair County Prison, accusing multiple staff members of violating their civil rights by forcing them to partially undress in front of male staff after the ...

Frank Rathel Hicks, 43, guilty of holding two women in his Elk Grove apartment in 2024, drugging the pair and forcing them into prostitution.

However, the lawsuit alleges that, since being incarcerated in the state’s men’s prison, she has been denied access to razors and tweezers, as well as women’s undergarments. It also alleges that the ...

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused of sexually assaulting his female cellmate in a women’s prison. Christopher ...

California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated resentencing law in 2018. Few women benefited from these laws, until now. Headway California passed the nation’s first prosecutor-initiated ...

No other place in the world incarcerates women at a higher rate than South Dakota, according to research by a prison-focused nonprofit, and the construction of a second women’s prison in the state ...