WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

By the time anyone at the Milwaukee County Jail noticed Shade Swayzer had given birth alone in a filthy cell, her baby was dead.

The report points to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat women. A government watchdog agency is pointing to systemic problems in the way federal prisons treat the women in their custody ...

THOMASVILLE — Five female inmates got baptized at the Thomas County Jail on Thursday morning. A symbol of new beginnings and spiritual rebirth, Sheriff Tim Watkins hopes that the women who ...

CORONA, Calif. (KABC) -- An in-prison apprenticeship program in Corona is giving female inmates the tools they need to build a better life upon release. The California Institution for Women held a ...