A federal judge has threatened to punish an Oregon prison for allegedly abusing a transgender woman inmate. The judge gave prison officials a December 18 deadline to respond to the inmate’s ...

Michigan needs to do better by ensuring its correctional facilities, especially WHVCF, are up to code. Raising concerns that ...

Experts on mental health care in prison have estimated that as many as 80 percent of women who are in jail or prison have been the victims of domestic violence and physical abuse prior to their ...

The body cavity search Christina Cardenas was subjected to at a correctional facility and hospital in Tehachapi amounted to "state sanctioned torture," famed attorney Gloria Allred said.

"Labia lift" strip searches: ACLU action gooses prison officials into changing degrading policy Even under the best of circumstances, prison is an exercise in humiliation.

A California woman, subjected to an hours-long cavity search while visiting her husband in prison, has won a $5.6million settlement, her attorneys said Monday. Christina Cardenas was stripped, X ...

Lawyers for a Louisiana prison inmate whose conviction in the 1972 death of a guard was overturned say he has been subjected to illegal “body cavity searches” while he awaits the next step in ...

Judge Frank Easterbrook noted that in prisons, “Strip searches often are reasonable and thus permissible.” The Supreme Court has allowed body cavity searches to combat contraband.

To round out their drug-sniffing clone dog army, South Korean authorities are now experimenting with robotic prison guards. Lest you think these cyber-wardens will be equipped with gatling guns in ...