Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only ...

Female prisoners in a notorious Iranian prison are tortured ... At Evin, Narges had to fight for access to a doctor and reportedly had her treatment blocked several times after refusing to ...

The first transgender woman to be removed from women’s housing in a Washington state prison filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, ...

Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Narges Mohammadi, said she will never stop ...

CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it’s her job to try.

Dawn Jackson is set to be released Wednesday from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility after serving 25 years in prison.

The Justice Department has been ordered to pay almost $116 million to 103 women who say they were abused ... $1.1 million for each woman who sued the prison for mistreatment and staff-on-inmate ...

The U.S. government will pay nearly $116 million to resolve lawsuits brought by more than 100 women who say they were abused or mistreated at a now-shuttered federal prison in California that was ...

On today’s show, we look at how art can highlight the struggles of incarcerated women, build solidarity with them across prison walls, and fight against the erasure and censorship inherent to ...