A 23-year-old Rapid City woman was sentenced to 7 1½2 years in prison for attempted aggravated child abuse after a toddler ...

Detained women at Damon Prison subjected to beatings and forcible removal of headscarves, Prisoners’ Media Office says - ...

Editor’s note: The article discusses sexual assault. “Guarded by Predators” is a new investigative series exposing rape and abuse by Idaho’s prison guards and ...

A recently shuttered federal women's prison could reopen as an ICE detention center as part of President Donald Trump’s mass ...

SUMNER COUNTRY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Three years after child sex abuse charges were first brought against a man in Sumner County, he now faces the prospect of more than 200 years in prison after he was ...

The new mugshot of Chelsea O'Donnell, taken on November 18, 2025, captures a turning point in a long, public struggle with ...

A southeastern Minnesota woman charged with killing two children in a crash involving an Amish buggy has learned her prison sentence. Samantha Jo Petersen, 37, was sentenced on Thursday to four years ...

A Woodlake man received a life sentence for multiple sexual crimes in Tulare County, involving numerous victims and lewd acts ...

Palestinian women held at Israel’s Damon Prison in Haifa have been subjected to abuse, including physical assaults and the ...

Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

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 ...