Women are often imprisoned for nonviolent crimes; their pathways into prison reflect high rates of childhood trauma.

Over a week after their emergency transfer from a Baltimore jail, women awaiting trial at the Maryland Correctional ...

WASHINGTON -- Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not contained the scourge of such violence, according to a Senate ...

A federal judge has sided with two female inmates who sued a Texas prison that put them in danger by forcing them to be ...

CORONA, Calif. (KABC) -- An in-prison apprenticeship program in Corona is giving female inmates the tools they need to build a better life upon release. The California Institution for Women held a ...

Plaintiff attempts to bolster case against the Women's Center with a 2023 federal audit that found blind spots and an ...

The Department of Justice has released data revealing the amount of sexual victimization in prisons and local jails in the ...

A transgender woman incarcerated in New Hampshire’s state men’s prison is suing the state’s Department of Corrections for ...

They’re human beings, and we’re treating them like they’re animals. We’re not trying to rehabilitate them. We’re just ...

Inmate Carolyn Arnett approached a pastor at the all-women's McPherson Unit prison with something she wanted to get off her ...