What it’s like to be a female prison officer in a male prison – and how it goes wrong It feels like every other week a woman is in court for an affair with a convict, but behind every headline is a ...

A FEMALE prison guard at the privately run Parklea jail has been charged with corruptly supplying contraband tobacco to a prisoner for cash, sparking opposition calls for the controversial facility to ...

A female prison officer faces jail after admitting inappropriate relationships with inmates - including a violent thug jailed for his role in a 'sickening' brawl. Charlotte Winstanley, 27, was working ...

Female prison guards are having to strip search the top half of transgender inmates before male colleagues check their lower region, MailOnline has learned. In a bizarre procedural ruling, jail guards ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -A woman jailed in Iran over accusations she had links to a banned political group died in hospital on Thursday, 10 days after falling ill with seizures, and human rights groups blamed ...

Washtenaw County Probate Judge Julia B. Owdziej granted an order for summary disposition Oct. 15, throwing out the lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections that argued ...

Women who were allegedly recorded during strip searches by prison guards' body cameras told Newsweek in exclusive interviews that the mental and emotional aftermath has led to fear, anger and the ...

Transgender criminals should be given taxpayer-funded wigs and underwear to help them on their “journey”, Scotland’s prisons watchdog has said. HM Inspectorate of Prisons for Scotland (HMIPS) said a ...

A woman held in prison in Iran for the past six months for writing anti-government slogans died Thursday after falling into a coma, rights groups said, accusing authorities of neglect. Somayeh Rashidi ...