California’s incarcerated population has aged rapidly over the past 30 years. A new report recommends pathways for release.

States are building new women's prisons as addiction, tougher sentencing and high recidivism drive rising incarceration.

While men historically receive the majority of extreme prison sentences, some women around the world have faced extraordinarily long terms for crimes ranging from murder and fraud to political ...

Women’s incarceration has increased by more than 600% since 1980, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in jails or prisons in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...

As Christmas approaches in a women's prison, the decorations and trees become brighter and fill up more of the available space, covering up blank walls and distracting the eye from harsh lighting and ...