In May 2018, Ruby McPeters was eight months pregnant when she was booked into Hood County jail on a probation violation.

The videos appear to bolster lawsuits claiming guards used force against California prisoners after they filed sexual harassment claims.

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature. By Liz Krieger The plastic ...

A male former state Corrections officer accused of sexual conduct with inmates at a women's prison in Washtenaw County has been bound over to stand trial on four felony counts. Joshua Lee, 22, of ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Credit: Deedeebee, Wikimedia Creative Commons An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public ...

Just a few hours after holding a press conference about the local winter storm response, Mayor Freddie O'Connell released a statement saying the pace at which Nashville Electric Service plans to ...

The entire Mitchellville Police Department, including the interim chief, resigned by Jan. 1, leaving the city without officers. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is providing law enforcement coverage ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after shooting two women, ultimately killing one of them. The Pueblo Police Department said that ...

An inmate serving time for manslaughter has won an appeal over his missing TV, which disappeared during a transfer between New Jersey prisons. Sadot Council, 40, bought a television in May 2023 from ...