The number of self-harm incidents at a women's prison in Surrey has increased by nearly 20% in a year, a report has found. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said a high turnover of prisoners at ...

Some female convicts are shackled by their feet, hands and bellies during labor. Oct. 21, 2010— -- You need not go overseas to find violations of women's rights and health care rights, say ...

This is the first installment in a new InvestigateWest series called “Guarded by Predators,” exposing rape and abuse by Idaho ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner ...

Four immigrant women detained at an ICE processing center have come forward with harrowing accounts of inhumane conditions, including hours spent chained on prison buses without access to food, water, ...

The new prison in Chesterfield, which is to rise on a multi-building campus, is expected to be completed by 2028 in ...