In early 2025, the women's prison outside of Fond du Lac had reported an outbreak of respiratory illnesses among prisoners.

The exhibit focuses on the early years of the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, the state's first women's prison. The ...

Charlotte Thrasher most recently served as superintendent of the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

Yaritza Colon, a former female inmate, is suing the state of New York for $20 million, alleging state prison officials failed ...

A group of eight female members stationed at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY, were housed in prison ...

Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico.

Mark Leno, who authored California’s medical parole law when he was a Democratic state senator, criticized prison officials ...

One song tells of a 14-year-old girl in the southern state of Tabasco who killed her father when he was abusing her mother.

Prisoners who qualify — excluding inmates sentenced to death or life without parole — can be placed in a community health ...

The women’s accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration’s vetting of migrants it has sent to the ...

The tension about property taxes is filtering into debates about other bills including a proposal to spend $250 million on a new women’s prison and another bill to allocate $6 ...

In January, a transgender woman named Andrea Balcer, 24, was moved from the Maine State Prison to the women’s section of the Maine Correctional Institute. Balcer was convicted in 2018 of ...