A women’s rights organization is seeking permission from the Federal Court to challenge the government’s policy allowing ...

A CBC News data investigation into Ontario jails found a 38 per cent jump in the average number of women incarcerated since ...

Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate ...

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, a time dedicated to amplifying the voices of survivors and advocating justice. The goal should be not just awareness, but, wherever possible, ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer two transgender women inmates back to federal women’s prisons after they had been sent to men’s facilities in the ...

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Bureau of Prisons not to transfer nine transgender women to men’s prisons. These were in addition to the three plaintiff’s identified in the ...