The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...

RFE/RL spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the Homyel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, they shared stories of enduring cold, rotten food, and slave ...

"Inmates would always say if the public ever found out what the women's federal penitentiary was all about, there would be a ...

Italy's parliament on Tuesday approved a law that punishes femicide with life in prison. The vote coincided with the ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male ...

Wyoming Women’s Center inmate sues prison staff, leadership over sexual assault Maggie Mullen WyoFile.com Sep 12, 2025 Updated Oct 18, 2025 0 ...

The Virginia Department of Corrections is relocating all incarcerated women to a centralized area for what it calls a “gender responsivity plan.” ...