RFE/RL spoke to women who had been imprisoned at the Homyel penal colony on politically motivated charges. Now free and living in exile, they shared stories of enduring cold, rotten food, and slave ...

Female ex-political prisoners from a Belarusian penal colony describe freezing cells, rotten food, psychological abuse, and ...

More than 733,000 women and girls are incarcerated worldwide, according to the latest statistics from the Institute for Crime ...

"Inmates would always say if the public ever found out what the women's federal penitentiary was all about, there would be a ...

Document and be quiet,” one of the agents — who was holding a can of what appeared to be bear spray — told a person at the ...

Advocates say we're the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is shutting down its Terminal Island facility near Los Angeles over concerns about crumbling ...

The decision to close the facility, at least temporarily, “is not easy, but is absolutely necessary,” Director William K.

GREENFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- A man has been sentenced in connection with an alleged failed murder-for-hire plot.

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Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Under Franco’s dictatorial regime, women’s roles were rigidly controlled by the ideology of National Catholicism, which linked femininity, motherhood and loyalty to the state. The church reinforced ...