Women in Prison has written an open letter signed by more than 100 people calling for justice for domestic abuse victims.

The UK does not “make as much use of open prisons” as it could, a former Conservative justice minister has suggested. David ...

The bare cell, no more than two metres across, had no bed or toilet. Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old ...

California Democrats are so “inclusive” and “tolerant” that they have decided to include a man in a women’s prison and tolerate the multiple rapes he has allegedly committed. The case ...

A former UK prison governor has revealed what Christmas dinner is like for the country's inmates.

NARATHIWAT, Dec 21 — Most of the Malaysian women detained at the Narathiwat prison are drug offenders, said Narathiwat Provincial Prison Crime Management specialist (Women’s Wing) Panata ...

HMP Brixton, in London, is perhaps the best-known of Britain’s Category C prisons, and has held a diverse range of prisoners, ...

Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it's her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison for ...

In a staggering settlement, the federal government will pay $116 million to more than 100 women who said they were sexually abused by employees at a now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin ...

Julius Caesar, staged in 2012, became the first of a trilogy, followed by Henry IV and The Tempest, all set in women’s prisons. ‘I wanted to explore the unheard voices, those who didn’t ...