When Christina Cardenas visited her husband in 2019 at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, she was forced to undergo a traumatic, hours-long cavity search that involved her stripping ...

A federal judge has threatened to punish an Oregon prison for allegedly abusing a transgender woman inmate. The judge gave prison officials a December 18 deadline to respond to the inmate’s ...

LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A Chicago woman employed as a prison guard in Westville is accused of trying to smuggle marijuana and other contraband to inmates. Salina Newton, 43, was charged with two ...

Oregon prison staff, facing a court order to classify a transgender woman as vulnerable and prevent male staff or male prisoners from seeing her nude, forced her to submit to a body-cavity search and ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty to smuggling methamphetamine secreted in a “body cavity” into Shawangunk Correctional Facility, the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office said. On ...