These changes have included a range of new initiatives at Edna Mahan that center gender-responsive approaches in officer training and in service provision, and, most notably, the governor’s decision ...

A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and ...

What's life like for the 15,000 women behind bars in Mexico? In many ways, it's far worse than you might think.

Cosmetology students turned the tassels on their graduation caps after walking the stage inside Nevada’s women’s prison on Monday. “This really did save my life,” said Amber Wharton, a member of the ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Starting over after prison is hard. Olivia Perez was released after a 15-month sentence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even with family to support her, it was still a tough ...

Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of alleged sexual abuse. For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility ...

A female former inmate who says she was sexually victimized by her transgender cellmate has sued the Washington state prison system, arguing that her rights were violated when she was forced to share ...

Women in Michigan's only prison for females were, per policy, video-recorded on corrections officers' body cameras while they were nude during routine strip searches and while showering and using ...