The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal ...

Four decades ago, about 26,000 women were held in U.S. jails or prisons. By 2023, that number was roughly 186,000, according ...

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, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans ...

INDIANA — Discussions about how to reduce crime are constantly happening in communities across the state of Indiana. One nonprofit that works in women’s correctional facilities in Indianapolis, ...

BOISE, Idaho — If they hadn’t met in prison, none of it would have happened like this. On the outside, Jamie Hamilton would have been polite to Derek Stettler, maybe have had “a conversation,” she’d ...

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They used a drone to drop cellphones into a Georgia prison yard, where an inmate coordinated a multistate scheme largely aimed at women who were medical workers, prosecutors said. By Rylee Kirk Four ...

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, ...