This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. Lawmakers around the country, moved by harrowing stories of pregnancies in jail, are calling for new measures that make sure women and ...

This article was published in partnership with Bloomberg Law. When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby.

Women suing corrections officers at the Shelby County Jail in Memphis, Tennessee, say a male detainee was allowed to leave his cell and sexually assault them in November 2024. Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff ...

One of several men held in the women's facility of a Tennessee jail due to overcrowding was allowed to escape his cell and enter female cells, where he sexually assaulted two women without ...