Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

Women sit during a Christmas Day event at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Both women say it happened in a blind spot in a dark stairwell. There — out ...

March 8, International Women’s Day, is marked worldwide as a day to recognize women’s struggles for justice and equality. In ...

Matthew Roy stands in front of the Maine Correctional Center last month. His wife, Katie Mountain, is one of several women ...

Female prisoners are being treated as “pawns for political gain”, a lawyer has said at the start of a legal hearing over the Scottish Government’s policy on the treatment of transgender prisoners. The ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007 (photo credit: RONEN ...

A woman held in prison in Iran for the past six months for writing anti-government slogans died Thursday after falling into a coma, rights groups said, accusing authorities of neglect. Somayeh Rashidi ...