Transgender people have been the focus of an aggressive legislative push to mitigate their access to health care in recent years, and now trans prisoners are facing a new offensive. President Donald ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Busà Photography The United States’ federal prison system no longer offers gender-affirming care to incarcerated trans people ...

Cuba's government said Thursday night it would release 51 people from the island's prisons, in an unexpected move that comes as the Trump administration puts immense pressure on the country. The ...

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Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it. Angel Coronado, a ...

Iranian detention centers, some holding people swept up in a government crackdown on protests along with other prisoners, have been damaged in the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. By Parin Behrooz In the ...

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Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein bemoaned his bleak existence behind bars and admitted the idea of dying in prison terrifies him in a newly published jailhouse interview. Weinstein made ...

A New York man was freed from prison Monday after having spent nearly two decades behind bars for a robbery he didn't commit. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas town known for its prisons is allowing a shuttered private prison to reopen and house detained immigrants after a nearly yearlong legal fight amid a massive national push for ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A fire Sunday night critically injured an inmate at Indiana State Prison. The fire comes just days after 13 Investigates released a documentary revealing years of systemic ...

Nicolás Maduro is gone, but his regime remains largely intact. WSJ follows two families fighting to free loved ones from the country’s notorious prison system amid a fragile political opening. Photo: ...