The Department of Justice on Thursday launched civil rights investigations into prison systems in California and Maine over policies allowing transgender inmates to be housed in women's facilities, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New Jersey Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three more women incarcerated at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham have joined an ongoing lawsuit challenging the Maine ...

A federal appeals court on Friday allowed for the biologically accurate placement of transgender prisoners in accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive on housing inmates by biological sex, a ...

A federal judge has ordered the Oregon Department of Corrections to house transgender women in state prisons based on their gender identity and only after completing safety assessments on each case.

The investigations are the latest moves by the Trump administration to force prisons to house transgender women with male inmates. By Jenna Russell See more of our coverage in your search ...

New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy. In February, the Trump Justice Department issued a program statement titled “Management of Inmates with ...

JUST SOUTH OF US -- NEW HAMPSHIRE WAS ALSO NAMED IN A SIMILAR LAWSUIT ALONGSIDE SEVERAL OTHER STATES. THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCING THIS AFTERNOON IT WILL INVESTIGATE MAINE'S ...

People walk within the security fence in February at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham in February. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) WINDHAM — An inmate at the women’s prison in Windham has ...

An inmate at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging the New Jersey Department of Corrections failed to provide a safe environment by housing a ...