When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

which defines women based on sex at birth and advocates single-sex prisons, called the directive “a major victory.” The group is challenging a California law that allows prisoners to request ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

which defines women based on sex at birth and advocates single-sex prisons, called the directive “a major victory.” The group is challenging a California law that allowed prisoners to request ...

She has resided in a women’s facility for the entirety of her incarceration — dating back to her ... Under Trump, the Bureau of Prisons has changed its inmate statistics webpage to reflect ...

grand juries returned indictments against 15 correctional officers working at the Edna Mahan women's prison over an alleged blitz of coordinated assaults against inmates in a single night.

Previously, people were automatically assigned to men's or women's prisons based on their ... and that it's unfair to single out the small percentage of inmates who are trans as somehow posing ...

Moe’s lawyers said the fact that she is among a small fraction of transgender inmates that prison officials placed in a women’s facility ... Trump’s order “singles out transgender people ...