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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

12, 2023, at the state Capitol in Sacramento ... Rehabilitation known as the California Model. Women make up less than 5% of California’s prison population, but that small portion faces ...

Human rights groups warn that El Salvador's prisons are marked by overcrowding, lack of access to basic services and repeated ...

No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

The Paper Trail is an in-house newspaper written and edited by incarcerated people at Central California Women’s Facility. Its supporters say it's the first effort of its kind at a women's ...

Prosecutors asked a judge to send a 55-year-old Butte man to the Montana State Prison for 10 years because “the state has not been able to get the defendant to stop abusing women.” The ...

cut federal funding for Maine for putting a male convict with a violent record into a women’s prison. Speaking on “Fox and Friends,” Bondi said the state was in violation of President Donald ...

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 ...