As a result of InvestigateWest reporting that exposed sexual abuse of women by Idaho prison staff, lawmakers ordered an ...

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

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

A $310 million New Jersey women’s prison is scheduled to start construction by the end of the year. February 27, 2026 A $310 million New Jersey women’s prison is designed as a “more humane” ...

News Inside Issue 22 takes a hard look at how incarcerated women face unique challenges — and why their stories deserve to be ...

Lansing — Mold is a persistent problem inside Michigan's only prison for women, and employees made bets over whether inmates there would commit suicide, according to testimony presented Tuesday to the ...

Momentum is finally building to address longstanding and systemic problems at Michigan’s only women’s prison as state lawmakers, local elected officials, and activists demand answers about mold, ...

Matthew Roy stands in front of the Maine Correctional Center last month. His wife, Katie Mountain, is one of several women who say they have been harassed by another inmate, with their complaints ...

LANSING — Inmates frequently miss meals, prescribed medications and programming because of a shortage of working wheelchairs and wheelchair attendants at Michigan's only prison for women, according to ...

The Department of Homeland Security said that there are no plans to use the vacant FCI Dublin women's prison – closed in 2024 following a national sex scandal – for any type of ICE immigration ...

Laresha Thornton, a former teacher’s aide at the prison at Women's Huron Valley Prison, described a cruel environment. Credit: Screenshot/Michigan House Oversight Committee Michigan lawmakers from ...

A twisted serial sex predator who switched genders on the taxpayer dime while locked up in Canada is pushing to be transferred to a woman’s prison. Manfred Sperling transitioned from a man to a woman ...