Faith Booher-Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 by a 6’4” male child molester identifying as a transgender ...

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

A woman who pleaded guilty to conspiring with her family to lure her husband to American Fork and have him killed last summer has learned her prison fate. Kathryn Restelli, 37, was sentenced Tuesday ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but ...

Pairing a veteran police officer with a former inmate to crack down on crime seems the stuff of Hollywood — in fact, it was a winning formula when Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte teamed up in 48 Hours.

A Jamaican man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the United States for participating in a long-running scheme to defraud an ...