The Chesterfield facility will replace a prison plagued by abuse and controversy, even as legal battles over past misconduct ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

In June 2024, Andrea Weiskircher thought her life was over. She was sobbing in a jail cell in Boise thinking about what she ...

Pam Thomure, Executive Director of Empowering Women out of Prison and Cindy Billington, volunteer for Empowering Women out of Prison and the Prison Entrepreneurship Program discuss the history of ...

Women who were allegedly recorded during strip searches by prison guards' body cameras told Newsweek in exclusive interviews that the mental and emotional aftermath has led to fear, anger and the ...

Alabama is spending $1.25 billion to build a 4,000-bed prison for men intended to help with the crowding, violence, weapons, and drugs that plague the state’s aging and understaffed correctional ...

A male “transgender” inmate who allegedly sexually assaulted his female cellmate had a long history of violent behavior and serious infractions before Washington state correction officials transferred ...

Nearly two dozen incarcerated women received bachelor’s degrees through Cal State LA on Oct. 3, marking the first all-female ...

ICE has resumed holding immigrants at Irwin County Detention Center, which had reported medical abuse against women.

IONE — Two women were killed during conjugal visits with their incarcerated partners inside Mule Creek State Prison months apart last year, sparking questions about safety, rehabilitation, and justice ...

Inside a small, secure gymnasium and beneath a basketball hoop, Raven Blackwing pitched her business, Raven’s Haven, to two coaches seated in matching plastic tan chairs. Blackwing told the two other ...