The Bureau of Prisons adopted the implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) with lofty goals. A GAO report ...

Such allegations are spiking and the Justice Department is failing to implement key reforms meant to institute a ...

Advocates say sexual assault protections are important because many trans women are housed with male inmates.

A Justice Department memo obtained by NPR says detention centers should no longer be inspected using standards specifically designed to keep LGBTQ and intersex inmates safe. Andrew Harnik / AP The ...

IDAHO (InvestigateWest) — As Idaho reckons with revelations of widespread sexual abuse by women’s prison staff, the Trump administration has cut off support meant to help states combat that kind of ...

Nonprofits, Democratic lawmakers and survivors of sexual assault are calling on the state legislature to pass a bill proposed by Gov. Ned Lamont that would codify the provisions of the federal Prison ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections has ended a telephone hotline used by inmates to report sexual assaults, saying it was being misused and abused with multiple irrelevant complaints called in.

On the same day, notable prison-related actions were reported in California, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Israel. These included legislative hearings into alleged abuse at a California women’s prison, a ...