Sednaya Prison. People were taken here for speaking out, liking a post, or being in the wrong place — and most never returned ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, ...

Thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are enduring “a systemic, institutionalized policy of torture and abuse,” according to an Israeli human rights organization.

A former Oklahoma pastor who once led a church will serve time in prison after admitting to stalking and secretly filming a ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they ...

Aliya Rahman, a software engineer with a lengthy background in coding, has advocated in the past for police-worn body cameras ...

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered on Friday the release of approximately 400 female inmates from the Omdurman ...

On February 12, Bangladesh is scheduled to hold its first general elections since the country’s August 2024 Monsoon ...

A La Jolla woman who had been sentenced to prison for a failed attempt to hire someone to kill her husband died by suicide last week in Little Italy. According to the San Diego County Medical Examiner ...

Two women made allegations of sexual abuse, including being forced to engage in oral sex, groping and offers of clean water ...

A 29-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to six to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at his apartment. Bryan M. Stackhouse, now of the Manahawkin section of ...