Patients at Carswell medical prison in Fort Worth describe unsanitary conditions, missed treatments and substandard care.

A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...

Krystal Clark, an inmate at Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County, is pictured (left) as she entered prison. The other photo shows her face swollen and contorted. Credit: Michigan ...

A man whose diseased scalp resembled “an infected sponge of weeping” pus went without proper medical care for more than a year. Another developed tongue cancer after his early symptoms went ignored. A ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went ...

A federal judge’s ruling has temporarily prevented the transfer of three transgender women from women’s facilities to men’s prisons, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing debate over transgender ...

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

The two former health care leaders at the Oregon Department of Corrections routinely delayed medical treatment for people in custody, and retaliated against health care staff when they raised ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Iranian authorities of causing three women to perish in Qarchak prison after systematic denial of adequate medical care, raising serious concerns over right ...