Women from 17 different countries are working together to coordinate the global struggle against mass incarceration.

Gender has been long overlooked in Holocaust research. Writing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, early scholars such as Joan Ringelheim and Sybil Milton had to fight for their legitimacy in a field ...

Allegheny County Council struck down a measure Wednesday night to partly reverse the ban on restraining prisoners with leg ...

Women in this facility endure dehumanizing procedures that contradict every value espoused in the Governor’s river of hope-filled sentiments. It is the height of irony. In the same month officially ...

A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV. Dahbia Benkired, a ...

In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for ...

We’ll never be able to truly understand the horrors our ancestors went through during chattel slavery in America, but one white woman is now going viral after an immersive experience at a local ...

A judge has thrown out the top counts in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case — rejecting claims that the accused killer can be charged as a terrorist — in a huge blow to prosecutors. In a ruling ...

A man accused of sexually assaulting two women in one night in Florida has been sentenced to eight life terms in prison. Getty Images/iStockphoto A convicted sex offender who was recently released ...

The owner of a pornography business has been sentenced to prison on federal sex trafficking charges, officials said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Forty women out of hundreds federal prosecutors said were ...

A Venezuelan woman has been sentenced to prison for her role in helping run a San Antonio sex trafficking operation — a role that had her working for the same person who had previously also held her ...