A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility ...

A man whose diseased scalp resembled “an infected sponge of weeping” pus went without proper medical care for more than a year. Another developed tongue cancer after his early symptoms went ignored. A ...

Krystal Clark, an inmate at Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County, is pictured (left) as she entered prison. The other photo shows her face swollen and contorted. Credit: Michigan ...

This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a ...

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right ...

If women needed gynecological care at an all-female prison in southern California, their only option was to see the sole ...