Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said it transported over 100 state inmates to the Tennessee Department of Correction on Wednesday. They said they transported 108 male inmates and ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

More than two dozen women in Idaho prisons say guards have sexually abused them and faced little or no consequences, ...

The ACLU said it has met with women who say they were shackled, placed in solitary confinement for multiple days, and given ...

Ramsey County has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a woman’s lawsuit after she was raped by the driver of an Arkansas-based prison transport company contracted by the county. Jennifer Seelig sued ...

March 23 -- After two violent prisoners took corrections officer Lois Fraley hostage and managed to get control of the prison guard tower during a prison uprising, Fraley thought her life was over. "I ...

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A former correctional officer at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla was sentenced to 224 years in prison on Thursday for sexually assaulting female ...