Inspectors have revealed “deeply depressing” findings into female prisons as rates of self-harm are 8.5 times higher than ...

The women’s prison at Vandalia is expected to open a nursery in February that can serve up to 14 mothers and their babies for ...

In Japan's Tochigi Women's Prison, an 81-year-old inmate, Akiyo, has found an unexpected sense of stability behind bars. Serving her second sentence for theft, Akiyo's story sheds light on the ...

Three out of four incarcerated women in the U.S. are of childbearing ... create or grow a family can remain intact while she is behind bars." Do you have a story Newsweek should be covering?

A woman behind bars solicited other inmates to kill her family and promised them a cut of her $2 million inheritance, Florida authorities said. Tureygua Inaru, 31, was sentenced to 30 months in prison ...

By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order barring transgender women from being housed in female federal prisons. The order also halts any medical treatments related to gender transition ...