Educational materials on sexual assault in prisons, produced by the South Dakota Department of Corrections and paid for by federal grant funding. (Photo illustration by John Hult/South Dakota ...

Jails that are not compliant with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act's requirements will still be able to continue to house state inmates under a new agreement approved Thursday by the Board of ...

Several House Democrats are demanding the federal Bureau of Prisons make public an audit that examines reports of sexual assault at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they’ve ...

New filings in an ongoing lawsuit against officials at the women’s prison in Lusk point to a 2023 federal audit that found surveillance camera blind spots within the facility and an incomplete ...

New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...