In the wake of the Pope’s prison visit Dec. 26, the Register spoke with Catholic prison-ministry workers around the United ...

Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most ...

The recent ruling means that on the stand those women may be subject to speech policing from their alleged rapist—who has ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi remains out of jail after being allowed leave on medical grounds but could ...

The bare cell, no more than two metres across, had no bed or toilet. Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people ...

D'Shaunn Dixon was arrested and fired after the Department of Corrections and media outlets received cellphone video of the ...

DISGRACED prison guard Linda De Sousa Abreu who had sex with a lag in his cell is sharing a wing with Sara Sharif’s killer stepmum Beinash Batool. Some of Britain’s most high-profile female ...

The daughter of imprisoned YouTuber Ruby Franke has spoke about the punishments her mum would use before being arrested for ...

Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint ...

I just want to say how truly happy I am … to be standing here free after 17 years spent in a life sentence… for something I ...

An Italian war correspondent was arrested in Iran and ... solitary confinement at the Evin prison in Tehran. Cecilia Sala via REUTERS Her reporting said many women were no longer wearing the ...