The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it notified Maine Gov. Janet Mills of the beginning of a federal investigation into whether the state engages in a pattern or practice of housing ...

Women sit during a Christmas Day event at Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Both women say it happened in a blind spot in a dark stairwell. There — out ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing an investigation into gender self-identification policies in women’s prisons. The decision comes against the backdrop of ...

An inmate is challenging Washington state’s policy allowing biological males to be housed in female prisons based on gender identity, saying she was beaten up by a convicted child sex offender who ...

WASHINGTON (WABI) - The Department of Justice announced Thursday afternoon that the State of Maine is once again under investigation by the federal government for policies regarding transgender women ...

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 ...