The Central Mental Hospital is full with all 111 beds occupied and a further 38 people awaiting admission, a judge was told on Monday as she sought a place for a man who has been found unfit to plead ...

The United States transferred 5,700 detainees held for alleged ISIS affiliation from Northeast Syria to Iraq, where they are at risk of enforced disappearance, unfair trials, torture, ill treatment, ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — She says she was let down at every step. By a partner who abandoned her when she was pregnant. By a health service that denied her a legal abortion. And by a justice system that ...

Iranian authorities allegedly use unofficial detention facilities for interrogation during protests, leaving families unable ...

The man forced her to have sex with him and 10 other men and live there nude as she cooked and cleaned for him, according to a grand jury report.

Officials in the Trump administration appear to be proceeding cautiously as defendants in a pair of transgender prison housing cases.

Under the Taliban's new penal code, women have less legal protection than animals. What's happening in Afghanistan has a name ...

Two frustrated women’s advocacy groups have launched a billboard truck campaign across California, demanding attention to concerning rise in trans prisoners raping women. The campaign, organized ...

Thousands of Central Asians are believed to have joined Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, including women who were coerced or lured by offers of lucrative jobs.

Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. At issue was whether Idaho ...

Venezuela continued releasing political prisoners on Saturday, including a member of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s party, a week after President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces.

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature. By Liz Krieger The plastic ...