Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

Kareemah Hanifa just registered to vote for the first time in her life. As a juvenile, Hanifa, now 48, was sentenced to life ...

As a result of InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse of women by Idaho prison staff, lawmakers ordered an independent probe into the state’s handling of those allegations.

A downstate woman gave birth while incarcerated after labor was induced without her consent, she writes. She is suing the Illinois Department of Corrections, alleging the IDOC failed to follow the ...

It was heartbreaking to read incarcerated women’s accounts of the sexual harassment and threats they say they’ve endured since Maine began housing biological males who identify as transgender in women ...

A new Kansas law instantly invalidated the licenses of 1,700 people who had been allowed to update their gender on their ...

Serial killer Rose West is alleged to have groomed the 20-year-old prisoner for weeks before launching her alleged attack on ...

Probe says Israel guilty of 'intentionally directing attacks against civilian object'; IDF: Strike carried out in precise ...

When 22-year-old Wendy Faith shared a Valentine’s Day kiss with 21-year-old Alesi Diana Denise in Uganda — a country infamous ...

Democracy Now! recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, while she was in New York City to mark ...