On a spring day earlier this year, the prison gymnasium at the Maryland Correctional Institution for women, about 25 minutes outside Baltimore, was decorated in blue and yellow balloons and flowers.

The British female prison officer arrested after being allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate inside his prison cell pleaded guilty to misconduct on Monday. Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, was working ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and ...

Two more former prison guards have been charged with sexually abusing female inmates at a federal prison in Dublin which became known as "the rape club," authorities announced Thursday. Wilson, 34, is ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...

SAN FRANCISCO - October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a newly released study from Stanford surveyed women incarcerated for killing their abusers. The head researcher says the findings help ...