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

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation report on the unseen burdens women, especially of color, bear when ...

A local organization offering connection, education and entertainment to women in prison. Chicago Books to Women in Prison sends free books to women and trans nationwide. Becca Greenstein joins us ...

Female prisoners who look after livestock at their open prison have named some of the pigs after staff at the establishment, the BBC reported last week. At HMP East Sutton Park, near Maidstone in ...

Early in her second trimester, Linda Acoff was taken into custody for failing to complete court-ordered mental health treatment. After three weeks in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Columbus, Ohio, she ...

Staffers in Washington’s only women’s prison repeatedly used excessive force on incarcerated people, including multiple instances in which corrections officers inappropriately used pepper spray, even ...