Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News ...

Prison is not a good place for pregnant women. That does not mean that pregnancy provides immunity from wrongdoing and incarceration, but it does mean that there should be a strong public policy ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Women taken into custody by U.S. immigration agents while pregnant say they received inadequate care in a letter Wednesday that calls on the Trump administration to stop ...

The Washington Post is reporting that, according to an indictment filed this week, 13 female corrections officers essentially handed over control of a Baltimore jail to gang leaders. The head of the ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - A Miami-Dade inmate whose case gained national attention after she became pregnant while in jail has been found guilty of killing her boyfriend, a jury decided Thursday. “We the jury in ...

Women prisoners in Jharkhand jails are facing serious health risks due to an acute shortage of medical staff, with none of the prisons having a single regular nurse despite housing more than 16,549 ...