The Dublin City Council on Tuesday night is poised to pass a resolution that opposes turning the now-closed women's prison – ...

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

While prison disciplinary policies do not cite periods directly, the PPI report identified at least six types of prison policies used to punish menstruating people: These include rules concerning ...

South Dakota leads the nation in female incarceration. A new $87M women’s prison in Rapid City aims to expand rehabilitation ...

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 ...

In March 2024, Gov. JB Pritzker announced the closure and rebuild of both Stateville and Logan correctional centers, ...

A Bureau of Prisons policy that, earlier this week, called on transgender women in federal prisons to hand over any female-identifying clothing and other commissary items, like women's razors and hair ...

The retrial of an official charged in a sprawling sexual misconduct investigation into the East Bay women’s prison dubbed the “Rape Club” begins Thursday with jury selection. The case of Darrell Wayne ...

Nearly 100 years ago on Nov. 24, 1928, the first federal prison for women in the country, the Federal Industrial Institution, opened in Alderson, West Virginia.

Mother-baby bonding is crucial to a child’s development and leads to decreased recidivism rates, according to research. But prison nurseries aren't the ideal place to grow up. In Nebraska, the ...

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 ...