the government is setting up a Women's Justice Board to look at reducing the number who go to prison. One alternative in Cheshire has inmates work in recycling glass, plastic and metal.
The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission said the Israeli Damon prison administration, where Palestinian female prisoners are held, confiscated their Islamic clothes including hijabs, and ...
The issue poses a particular risk as at least 57 per cent of women in prison or under community supervision are survivors of domestic abuse, according to the charity Refuge. The Ministry of ...
I have been impressed by our female officers, who are pretty chilled and more than capable of running an all-male prison with minimal male involvement – indeed, there are several relatively ...
Laquentin Brantley was booked on Nov. 7 on accusations that he had sexually abused a female inmate at the prison where he worked as a supervisor The prisoner alleges in the charging documents that ...
April Youst looks out from the top of the stairs in her West Virginia home on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) HUNTINGTON, West Virginia — It was after midnight when she crept ...
Billings probation and parole captain Katie Weston has been tapped as the new warden of the Montana Women's Prison, the state corrections department announced on Tuesday. "We’re excited to ...
Women in prison are often taken to sensitive medical appointments involving intimate examinations, such as obstetrics and gynaecology, by male prison officers because of staffing problems, an ...