A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in physical danger by forcing them to be housed with male prisoners who identify as women. In an order published ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — More female inmates joined a federal lawsuit to separate transgender inmates from female inmates at a Texas special needs women’s prison, lodging additional allegations of sexual ...

OAKLAND, Calif. – A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood in December. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) A federal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — A former correctional ...

A federal court has upheld the conviction for the State of Oklahoma’s only female Death Row inmate, according to court documents. Brenda Andrew was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murder of her ...

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday decided in Bowe v. United States two complicated questions concerning federal habeas review. The case deals with federal inmates who are filing a second ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male correctional officers watched them shower, harassed and groped them and ...