The next Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons must immediately address pressing issues that have plagued the agency for ...

THE global female prison population is growing at a faster rate than that of men. While women still represent a smaller percentage of the total prison population in most countries, at the global ...

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in Chino, has been abusing his patients, according to a civil lawsuit ...

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One of the women identified as Jane Doe in a lawsuit filed Monday, which alleges abusive practices by an OB-GYN at the California Institution for Women in Chino. (Paul Kuroda/For The Times) ...