Violent storms battered Catania in Sicily on Tuesday (January 20), sinking a fishing boat in the port, flooding streets and ...

Wildfires that flared up again in Franschhoek, east of Cape Town, forced firefighters to battle shifting flames on Tuesday ...

Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes mass executions, rape and ethnic targeting, amounting to war crimes and crimes ...

After opening the HSBC SVNS season with back-to-back sixth-place finishes in Dubai and Cape Town, the Canadian women's rugby ...

Work is underway to build a new state prison for women to replace the dilapidated Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. (Courtesy of the Department of Corrections) New Jersey ...

Highlights from the match between USA vs. Australia - Women's Semifinal - Cape Town ...

Highlights from the match between USA vs. Great Britain - Women's Pool Play - Cape Town ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The state Department of Corrections, which has struggled to maintain workers in the past, must hire 133 staff members for the new women's prison here as it takes a new approach to ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility near Ypsilanti. Credit: Deedeebee, Wikimedia Creative Commons An internal assessment by the Michigan Department of Corrections contradicts the state’s public ...