By Shaila Dewan and Amy Harmon President Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

Japans prison system reflects the growing challenges faced by its elderly population. With many elderly women turning to crime for survival, prisons like Tochigi Womens Prison offer stability, ...

ISLAMABAD: The overcrowded prisons in the country are housing 102,026 prisoners in 116 jails and prisons having ...

in the case registered under Section 295-B of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy statutes relating to desecration of the Quran, punishable by life in prison, said attorney Javed Sahotra. “The judge ...

The government is expected to announce the launch of a Women's Justice Board to reduce the number of women in prisons as soon as next week. It is a progressive approach to sentencing that went ...

It took Susan Salih about eight hours to travel from Kabul, Afghanistan, to Peshawar, Pakistan, to take a scholarship exam the Pakistani government offers to Afghan students. Salih, 25, and a ...

A.D. Lewis, an attorney at the Prison Law Office, a nonprofit law firm that focuses on constitutional protections for trans people, estimates there are fewer than 10 trans women in federal women’s ...

Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act. The ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s prisons are housing 152 per ... special facilities for women and juvenile inmates, out of four prisons for women, three are located in Sindh — Karachi, Hyderabad, and ...

The Pakistani Taliban has been growing in power and ambition since its ally across the border retook control of Afghanistan ...