Over the last several decades, women’s incarceration has grown much more rapidly than men’s, especially in rural areas, ...

North Dakota state and corrections officials broke ground April 2 for a new women's prison in Mandan that aims to replace an aging facility south of Dickinson and address inmate ...

Colby Braun, director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the ...

We will protect women throughout this country. No more of that." In January, Andrea Balcer, a 24-year-old born "Andrew," was moved from the Maine State Prison to the women’s section of the Maine ...

Female legislators proposed a slate of bills aimed at prison reform, including offering survivors of sexual violence alternatives to incarceration.

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

While the city moves to redevelop the prison grounds, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

In January, Andrea Balcer, a 24-year-old born "Andrew," was moved from the Maine State Prison to the women’s section of the Maine Correctional Institute, Bangor Daily News reported. Balcer was ...

When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United States had been carried out by a firing squad ...

Tania Thomas, 47, and Stephanie Dowells, 62, were each allegedly strangled to death during conjugal visits with their husbands at Mule Creek State Prison Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE ...