These changes have included a range of new initiatives at Edna Mahan that center gender-responsive approaches in officer training and in service provision, and, most notably, the governor’s decision ...

A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and ...

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 ...

What's life like for the 15,000 women behind bars in Mexico? In many ways, it's far worse than you might think.

A new investigation finds sexual abuse inside Idaho’s women’s prisons has been widespread — and largely ignored. Over the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Starting over after prison is hard. Olivia Perez was released after a 15-month sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with family to support her, it was still a tough ...

Colorado prisons are battling a growing number of inmates struggling with substance use disorder. Back in 2024, the attorney general said some parts of the state can see higher than two-thirds of ...

A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their ...

A lawsuit filed against a California gynecologist accuses him of sexually abusing multiple women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women. Getty Images/iStockphoto If women needed ...

California ministry sponsors compromise bill, arguing that “one community’s safety cannot come at the cost of another’s.” In 2008, while Amie Ichikawa was serving her sentence at the Central ...

Formerly incarcerated women will lead a march on Saturday, Sept. 13, from the Framingham Centre Common to MCI-Framingham to protest the state's plan to invest $360 million in renovating the women's ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility ...